Before I award points to this week’s pop culture winners and losers I want to make a very special announcement. It’s time for the first ever Self Loathing Pop Culture Giveaway. We’re approaching our 5000 hit and I really appreciate all of you readers, whether you’ve been with me since the start on MySpace or just browsed past the site today on a lark, and I want to say thank you in a bribe oriented kind of way. So here’s how it works, if you’re the 5000th visitor take a screen shot showing the site counter on the left hand side of the web page and email it to karatepants@gmail.com. Hell, send it to me if you’re 5001 or 5002 as you never know if the actual 5000th visitor will be aware of the contest and/or take the time to enter. Once the winner is confirmed they’ll receive a fabulous prize…a slightly used CD of the cast recording of Once More With Feeling…aka the Buffy musical. Good luck and thanks again for all of your support. Now on with the points…
-9: Hell’s Kitchen- What a surprise! Last night the worst season of an already tired show took another terrible turn by splitting up its season finale over two nights. In a season where Gordon Ramsey has given us a group of untalented, uninteresting chefs you’d think he’d want to just get it over with especially since word about who wins was leaked during the show’s second week on the air. This show has never really been about the cooking and I’m getting tired of Ramsey’s shtick. I will of course watch his new show Kitchen Nightmare’s which looks like it may actually focus more on the food and less on the crutches of bad reality TV and of course I’ll watch next week’s finale finale, but I won’t be happy about it.
-5: Best Week Ever- 5 is the number of weeks that VH1 has put BWE on hiatus for. 5, is the number of times Lindsey Lohan will check in and out of rehab between now and the show’s return September 14th. 5, is the number of characters R. Kelly is rumored to play in the latest installments of Trapped in the Closet that will be released during this hiatus. 5 is the number of weeks that VH1 will piss me off by pulling one of my favorite shows on TV. Oh well it just means 5 times the ratings for the vastly superior Soup anyway.
+2: The Rock Life- I take a lot of pride in keeping abreast of new shows on TV especially on MTV and VH1 but a new one has managed to sneak by me. Flipping channels due to a repeat of The Daily Show, I came across VH1’s Rock Life. It’s a new documentary series following the band Whitestarr as they try to record a new album, tour, and just live. I only caught 15 minutes or so but it immediately reminded me of one of my favorite films of the last 5 years, DiG! The band seems to be made up of a bunch of talented miscreants struggling to achieve their dream in spite of their dysfunction. I’m only giving it 2 points at this point because I haven’t seen a whole episode but since the show just premiered last night, there’s certainly time to get in on the ground floor.
+3: The View- Thank you, thank you, thank you for hiring Whoopi as Rosie’s replacement. While I still won’t watch your train wreck of a show, one can only hope that this new job will ensure that we’ll never have to suffer through another Whoopi hosted installment of the Academy Awards. Thanks Baba Wawa!
-5: Bravo!- You know I love you Bravo. You’re reality shows are usually the best in the biz. I even sat through Hey Paula! thinking that there’d be some moment of actual humanity shown by that crazy crazy lady. However in the last couple of weeks you just got lazy. First there was the midseason Top Chef reunion show with contestants from the first two seasons joining the season 3 chefs that had already packed their knives. While there were some entertaining and educational moments (finally we learned how Padma got that scar on her arm) it was really just a cheap excuse to extend the season an extra week. Meanwhile last Thursday brought the finale of Paula Abdul’s show and it was a glorified clip show. Really Bravo, do you think I want to relive some of the moments that disgusted me and turned me from someone who didn’t care about Paula Abdul to someone with a personal vendetta? The show tanked in the ratings and you would have been better off letting it fade off into the sunset a week earlier. Oh and Welcome to the Parker is far worse then your adequate Real Housewives of Orange County. In short get it together Bravo! Here’s hoping a double serving of Tim Gunn this fall will get you back on track.
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