I Can See Those Hills From Miles Away

Yes tonight brought us fresh eps of The Hills and even the New York Times is following the show. Who can blame them after the huge success of TV's greatest guilty pleasure (sorry Big Brother) and the "in your face" publicity or marketing the MTV show has gotten in the past week. Before we get to the episodes themselves, is anyone remotely surprised that nude photos of Audrina showed up last week or that US magazine ditched Britney Watch to cover LC's latest spat with Brody? Um the answer would be no. Like we all know the show is fakeness personified so it wouldn't surprise me if MTV coordinated the whole schmooze and then sat back to reap the profits. As long as you take the show for what it is, as pseudo-reality, then it's not worth getting bent out of shape over. Still the line of reality is becoming blurrier and blurrier especially when mainstream press like the Times gets involved.

As for the hour long show itself, we picked up where we left off with Lauren and Whitney's Excellent Paris Adventure. It's amazing that even across the pond LC attracts complete douche bags as the escort from the ball just screamed douche. Even the nice guy she met was a bit shady as he was at least 15 years older then her and he was a rocker wannabe personified. Of course the girls were there to work and once again we caught a fleeting glimpse of what Lauren could be when this reality game is all done as she smartly turned her ball gown into a sassy evening dress. Then of course she went right back to reality dunce by burning it with a curling iron. Through it all Whitney was the voice of reason and the woman of a million facial gestures. Meanwhile in the US, Spencer was still an ass and Heidi continued to make progress into becoming a real woman again (of course that music video a couple months back already shows us she’ll eventually fail). The best part about The Hills premieres are always the “this season on” segments at the end and that again was my favorite. Oh shit there’s Stephen from Laguna! Look more Lo goodness! On no Audrina did not just hug Heidi? Weeks of mindless musings on men with two names, Spencer vs. Satan comparisons, and what bag goes with these shoes await us and I for one can’t wait.