My friends Allison and Bryan created the “reality”-show-centered blog/podcast I’m Not Here to Make Friends. Since I was Allison’s screenwriting teacher, I try not to take her obsession with secretly-scripted non-union “reality” shows personally. But the two of them are good enough to lend me a little space to review episodes of Dancing With the Stars, my own personal guilt-TV obsession. I have turned in reviews of all three nights of their Premiere special – which may explain why I have been so blog-silent this week. They have yet to post the second and third, but the first is published and proud:
“Could it be that last year’s rise of Gilles, Shawn and Melissa represented this juggernaut’s moment of foxtrotting the proverbial shark? If so, that probably means that we’ve only got about 6 more seasons before ABC notices – so in the inevitable wind-down, expect contestants along the lines of ALF and the fake pimp from those ACORN videos.“