“And I have cake on my dress” aka the return of The Hills

Every time a new season of The Hills premieres, I pontificate on how the show makes me dumber, on the mystery of why these people are interesting, and how it must be coming to an end. Last night’s season 4 premiere was no different except for the fact that I can now add guilt to my usual list of feelings. While I’ve introduced my scholarly partner to many new TV shows, they’ve usually been of high quality, Lost, Heroes, Venture Brothers, etc. However, last night she sat with me and watched the entire new episode. Now I hoped that the disease that is The Hills wouldn’t take, but sure enough by the end she was captivated and turned to me and said, “You know what? I like your Hills.” Damn you Lauren, you have stolen another bright mind that could be thinking about poignant topics like Georgia and Russia, and instead have them thinking about how Doug is a weird name (btw it’s not that weird, Lo is a weird name not Doug). As for the show itself I of course loved it. Anytime Lo gets quality screen time I’m happy and her talk over showdown with Audrina was AWESOME. I love that Speidi really think the show is theirs and have added yet another spin off cast member in Heidi’s sister. You can just smell the desperation in those two as their fame begins to flicker out. Publicly Lauren is actually sounding convincing that she’s done after this season but in the meantime we’ve got plenty more drama with dumb, dumb, dumb people. Let’s just hope Barack never sits down to watch, or we may lose another bright mind.