The point still stands valid that there is only a bunch of trash on television. It is a complete waste of your time. So, stop watching it.
But, if you can’t help yourself, there is something new that is so pointless and vapid that you might as well tune in. As if you were going to watch a documentary on how the universe works or some news, right?
VH1 has refurbished the trend of celeb-reality shows with “Confessions of a Teenage Idol.” Seven teen idols are now washed up from years of being one-hit wonders and gather in a studio, make-shift apartment to work out their demons of why little girls don’t love ‘em no more!
To try to get your brain around why this is relevant is impossible. Don’t even try it. Your head will explode. Flip over to CNN and watch Israeli tanks rolling through the Gaza strip. You’ll see video of men and women screaming and pleading for the violence to end. Now, switch back to VH1. Now, you see a washed up, middle aged surfer crying and begging for someone to pay attention to him now that he has to build pools all day long for the rich and famous. (He probably thought those royalty checks were really gonna hold through…)
Ok, so the cast includes Adrian Zmed (he was on TJ Hooker – Its ok, you were too young), Billy Huffsy (he was on FAME – a drama show about broke dancers or something and I think someone sold drugs…it had a real weak plotline), Eric Nies (Season I of the Real World – Ultimately what destroyed MTV), Christopher Atkins (the chia pet boy from the original Blue Lagoon), Jamie Walters (Donna’s abusive boyfriend on 90210 – he pushed Donna down the stairs and beat her up constantly – he was like the Ike Turner of 90210…also had a song that sucked tailpipe in the mid-late 90′s), Jeremy Jackson (he the kid on Baywatch and he also tried to manufacture meth…nice! Yeah, we want to remember this sweaty loser!) and David Chokachi (he was also on Baywatch).
The cast will undergo therapy sessions with some crack-pot therapist to understand what drives their passion for fame. Uhm, are we that dumb? What’s so hard to understand. These guys got paid and were famous for having, literally, the easiest jobs on the planet. Hey, Jeremy Jackson, how grueling were those shoot days when you had to run up and down the beach and hold a red lifeguard buoy. Yeah, I’d turn to meth too!
Most of these guys are completely forgettable, like the guy from FAME. Seriously, FAME? Apparently, the demo for VH1 is women in their early 50′s who were dateless on Saturday nights in the 80′s. How else would you remember this junk?
Adrian Zmed was also the lead in Grease 2. John Travolta still owes him a pistol whip for that.
Travolta needs to spend the next three years traveling the country-side pistol-whipping everyone he comes across.
Now THAT would make some good prime-time TV.