I’m
surprised as Hell no one’s jumped all over
this as a headline: PETE TOWNSEND: “THE
KIDS ARE ALRIGHT!”
The
amazing Fox show “24” just keeps rolling
along. This season is even better than the last,
with plot twists that completely shock the viewer.
This is a show that proudly proclaims “no
one is who or what they seem.” It’s
like Bobby Brady revealing to his family that
he’s a terrorist, then shooting Cindy in
the head.
In
the second episode, the hero murdered a witness
in Federal Protection, then calmly asked for a
hacksaw, so he can cut of his head. Last night,
a woman murdered her middle-eastern fiancé,
revealing she was using him as a front for two
years of terrorist activity. Oh, and did I mention
it was their wedding day and a nuclear bomb is
about to destroy Los Angeles?
This
is a fantastic show.
Just
when you thought the reality TV genre was losing
steam, FOX rolls out “Joe Millionaire.”
The
episodes have fallen into a Bachelor-like lull,
but the big pay-off will be seeing these women’s
faces as they’re told this so-called millionaire
is a $19,000 a year construction worker.
I
only wish that they’d tell the women who
are not chosen each week. Let’s see how
desirable he is then. I can hear their indignation
now. Instead of tears of rejection, we’d
be getting this….
“
I knew there was something phony about him. “
“ I didn’t like him anyway”
“ I always suspected he was hiding something.”
In a surprising coup, the WB pulls out not one,
but two cool reality programs.
First
up, “High School Reunion,” in which
they put a ten-year high school reunion in Hawaii
for a few weeks and watch the old jealousies and
insecurities fly. Every clichés and clique
is represented… the jock, the cheerleader,
the popular girl, the shy kid, the bully, etc.
It’s
great to see how old emotions and perceptions
still grip people ten years after high school.
Two of the guys still harbor grudges against the
bully, who by the sounds of it, was a true asshole.
All
the women still pine after the popular jock, even
though he is swarmy asshole with designs for bedding
each of them. Not to mention his conspicuous pot-belly,
which the ladies seem not to see.
The
guys all want the popular girl, who while very
cute, is hardly a match for the cheerleader who
ended up posing for Playboy.
All
these people are not attracted to who these people
are now, but who they imagined them to be in high
school. Truly a fascinating social experiment.
Then
we have the less interesting, “The Surreal
Life.” This time, they get a house and fill
it full of B-list celebrities to live together.
They’ve
got Vince Neil, Emmanuel Lewis (Webster), MC Hammer,
Cory Feldman, the bitchy Jerri from “Survivor,”
some Playboy playmate, the brainy chick with glasses
from “Beverly Hills 90210.”
