(How ironic. This is the same exact blank stare viewers have when they watch this show.)
So, last weekend MTV was showing all the seasons that lead up to the so called “Last Season” of…wait for it…wait for it…THE HILLS! I, myself, had never witnessed this reality “phenom” before (due to my parents’ extreme stinginess and sheltered upbringing) so I was embarrassingly excited, at the age of 22, to be viewing something that felt so superficial and shallow. Aka; good quality, educational programming that I was neglected from as a child! Mom and Dad must’ve not known that MTV was actually the sister station to PBS. So I made myself a little vodky drink, put on my snuggie, (For convenience purposes, obviously. I mean, who wants to have their blanket fall off while using the remote? I don’t.), and plopped down on the couch to begin, what would be, the dissolution of my brain cells.
Let me just start out by saying; I see where the producers were going with this show. They wanted to have teenage girls loathe their bodies, wish they were trust fund babies, and be attracted to complete douchebags. And they seemed to have achieved their goal. Within the first 10 minutes, I wanted to trade in my trusty Pontiac for a new Beamer, decided I would officially quit eating, and wanted to figure out; Just what IS Justin Bobby really all about?
One of the many things that I was unable to understand was how these “plastics” just don’t seem to grasp the concept that this is in fact a scripted reality tv show, therefore, they are probably going to have constant run ins with their “frenemies”. So, I don’t get why they kept acting shocked and surprised when they would see their rivals out and about in their own personal favorite hot spots. Uhhh because you’re getting paid to be there, ya dumbshits! You’re getting paid to bring the drama and the cat fights! Basically, you’re just getting paid to be an attractive idiot!
Another thing I seemed to realize is, the deeper I got into the show (Yea, even for haters like myself, it’s easy to get drawn in) I started seeing that during quite a few episodes, it’s like the producers suddenly realized just how pathetic their show was and decided to just give up on creating a story line; thus, proceeding to fill in the empty airspace with music. In other words, when you see Heidi and Spencer just staring at each other with their frozen expressions and tilted heads over dinner, the awkward silence is then filled in by a song from an indie artist trying to make it big. I’m sure they’re ecstatic when they learn that their music is being featured on The Hills. I’m sure it also gives them major cred in the music world.
All in all, I can only compare this show/tragic event to a bad car accident. You know what I’m talking about. You’re drivin by, you know what you’re gonna see can only be bad, but still…you just HAVE to look?
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