This TV review in the NYT this morning had me just chortling, what a great reminder that often the best part of a new TV show is the way it is reviewed. Here are some of the best lines:
- Isn’t it always the way; just when you think the Internet is going to produce some raunchy footage of Christopher Hitchens, it is another tape of a nubile young woman angling to join the ranks of the dubiously recognized that shows up.
- I would like to say that “Keeping Up With the Kardashians” is as good as the gold standard in its genre: “Gene Simmons Family Jewels,” the reality series about Mr. Simmons, the Kiss star; his companion, Shannon Tweed; and their children.
- As a face and a body, Tila Tequila looks essentially like a very well-toned squirrel. But men love her, and so do women — hence the premise of her show, which has 16 straight men and 16 lesbians competing for her affections. As one young woman contending for her partnership put it: “You have to be blind and a little retarded not to find her hot.”
- But if you happen to be among the visually and mentally impaired who do not find Tila Tequila, in all of her sauced-up arrogance, to possess a modicum of charm, wit, sensuality or attractiveness — if you would rather, as I would, watch a dating show starring Danny DeVito — then you will wonder why men are courting her with jewelry and perfect abs and bowls of spaghetti, and why the women are dressing up as sexy cabdrivers and hard hats.
When I was in the Marine Corps and deployed aboard Navy ships, we had a measure for coffee that was so bad that it transcended its badness and became good, the last hit of sludge from a pot that had been on boil for several days, lightened with powdered cream and packets of sugar became so bad that it was in a moment made not just drinkable but worth searching for. Maybe these two shows have achieved that same transition?
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