Oh Joel McHale, how I curse thee! Every week I find myself entertained by your tales on E!’s The Soup as you skewer the lowest of the lows on the boob tube. Often you mock shows that I watch but more often than not you find new lows out there that even I was not aware of. Such was the case when you submitted a number of clips from Oxygen’s Bad Girls Club over the last year.
Featuring reality superstar in the making Tanisha, the second season of this show exploded on the pop culture radar. Weekly visits to The Soup and Best Week Ever made it had to ignore. My partner soon began inquiring what channel this Oxygen was on our TiVo and then it happened, Bad Girls Club marathon. Over the last few weeks we’ve watched the entire second season and caught up on the third and I don’t feel quite as self loathing as I thought I would. The show is essentially The Real World without guys in the house or the pretense that these girls are going to have any personal growth on the air. Such honesty is refreshing these days. In fact, it’s almost exactly like the last Hollywood installment of The Real World since they frequent the same bars. You almost expect the camera crews to run into each other during season 2.
The current season features just about everything you want from a lowest common denominator reality show. The girls are violent, bitchy, drunk, and unbelievably stupid, and I love it. Turns out I owe you a debt of thanks Mr. McHale or at least the TV part of my brain does.
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