You all know how we feel about reality shows 'round here. And we don't have much love for the likes of Entertainment Weekly, who in our eyes not only report on, but also perpetuate the kind of climate that makes this nonsense acceptable to the masses. However, once in a while one must make exceptions, and the magazine's scathing reveiws of two of the new crapstatic examples of this lowly genre--both written by Gillian Flynn--got EW a temporary reprieve with us.
Flynn's initial reaction to Living Lohan--the brainchild (no, scratch that) the concoction of Dina Lohan, mother of Lindsay, and manager of 14 year old wannabe singer Ali--was one of "irritation turned to repulsion around the first minute, when Dina, after her morning ritual of scanning the tabloids for Lindsay's weary mug, announces, 'They'd better not start in on Ali like this.' Hey, I have an idea: Don't film a reality show in your child's fricking bedroom!"
Marginally kinder to Denise Richards' venture into 'reality', It's Complicated, she refers to the actress as now being "more famous for her bitter divorce from Charlie Sheen than her acting" (who, incidentally, sued and lost his appeal to keep their daughters off the show) and pretty much sums the up show as another boring opportunity for us to watch "a famous pampered person doing things we don't want to do either."
Ugh.
