I admit it - I watched True Beauty last night. I know I shouldn't. I know my response should be, "What? Oh? Pretty people can be mean? Got it. Thanks. I went to high school." The premise is that 10 of the beautiful people are gathered together to compete for the title of America's Most Beautiful Person and $100,000. Really. They signed up for this. Obviously not competing for America's Smartest Beautiful Person. But regardless. They show up at the obligatory mansion all raring to catfight between bizarre challenges. But the "catch" (can it be called a catch when it's blindingly obvious?) is that they are really being judged on "inner" beauty. As in, is it possible to be both pretty and nice. Seriously, I shouldn't be watching this. It will affect my karma.
But I still watched it. It's like that scab that you just want to pick. Just a little. Can't resist. It was a learning experience. Number one, I didn't know that pretty people actually talked about how pretty they are. Modesty for this, admittedly, lovely bunch of bananas appears to be a foreign concept. Number two, pretty people are a lot less interesting than I would have guessed. Scratch the glitter and you just seem to find another layer of glitter. The main topic of conversation appeared to be how hot everyone was. There was probably a reason nobody at the Algonquin Round Table was a real looker. Number three, it is really hard to talk about how superficial someone else is without coming off kind of, well, superficial. The judges kind of keep the big hook a secret, then lower the boom when somebody gets kicked off, showing them the tape of them being an asswipe during the challenges. Yee-ouch. Harsh is a look even supermodel/judge Cheryl Tiegs can't pull of.
So far, the only really big surprise has been that the two people who are meanest to other pretties have been the nicest to the normals. And actually, they appear to hate each other right out of the gate. At this point I'm hoping that they fall in love with each other in the end and it turns out to be a Bizarro World version of Pride and Prejudice. So romantic. Sick, sad, wrong and romantic.
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I too want them to have a made affair - LOL. You KNOW I'm watching this one - so delicious.
I missed this week's! Gotta find out if they do streaming eps on the web. Or at least a summary. When one of hot-testants goes completely bonkers and starts painting their face with lipstick muttering how pretty they are, I want to be there.
I admit it. I'm also an addict. It's so bad I want to look away, but just can't. It's a delicious car crash! It doesn't help that it comes on at 10pm, which is so late for me at my 5:30am wake-up call.
I always forget you guys on the Eastern time zone have prime time an hour later. In CST, I can catch all my shows and still get my seepies in.
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