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Reality Bites: The Jennie Garth Project

By Pete Vonder Haar
Oct 1, 2014

There are a million reality shows on the naked television. We're going to watch them all, one at a time. Jennie Garth is an actor. She's best known for playing Kelly Taylor in the quintessential '90s TV show Beverly Hills, 90210, and again in 90210, the CW's not-at-all necrophiliac revival...
Reality Bites: Toughest Place to Be a Taxi Driver

By Pete Vonder Haar
Sep 17, 2014

There are a million reality shows on the naked television. We're going to watch them all, one at a time. In my lengthy and casualty-ridden campaign to avoid Bravo programming, I decided to check out a channel not often known for frivolous time wastage, namely, Al Jazeera America. And wouldn't...
Reality Bites: Fat Guys in the Woods

By Pete Vonder Haar
Sep 10, 2014

There are a million reality shows on the naked television. We're going to watch them all, one at a time. Until now, it never occurred to me to review any of the shows on the Weather Channel for "Reality Bites." Not because it was necessarily lacking in the category (I'm...
Reality Bites: Gypsy Sisters

By Pete Vonder Haar
Sep 3, 2014

There are a million reality shows on the naked television. We're going to watch them all, one at a time. When it comes right down to it, there are three types of reality shows. The first kind, those that attempt -- however weakly -- to instruct the audience about obscure...
Reality Bites: Wahlburgers

By Pete Vonder Haar
Aug 20, 2014

There are a million reality shows on the naked television. We're going to watch them all, one at a time. Was this really necessary? I probably ask that question every week. Arguably none of the garbage I subject myself to on a weekly basis for your quote-unquote amusement *needs* to...
Reality Bites: Extreme Guide to Parenting

By Pete Vonder Haar
Aug 13, 2014

There are a million reality shows on the naked television. We're going to watch them all, one at a time. To this point, there haven't been a whole lot of parenting reality shows, unless you count the ones that only address it in the broader context of family life, like...
Reality Bites: Catfish: The TV Show

By Pete Vonder Haar
Aug 6, 2014

There are a million reality shows on the naked television. We're going to watch them all, one at a time. Man, am I glad I'm not single. It was bad enough back in the Dark Ages (i.e. the 1990s), when you had to put on pants and physically drag yourself...
Reality Bites: Dating Naked

By Pete Vonder Haar
Jul 23, 2014

There are a million reality shows on the naked television. We're going to watch them all, one at a time. "Naked television" indeed. When it comes down to it, dating shows aren't any better or worse than shows about flipping houses (Flip This House), staged cooking competitions (Celebrity Cook-Off, or...
Reality Bites: Little Women: LA

By Pete Vonder Haar
Jul 16, 2014

There are a million reality shows on the naked television. We're going to watch them all, one at a time. The glut of reality television, like climate change, is a reality that can't be denied by rational human beings. From inexplicably top-rated shows like American Idol and The Bachelor/Bachelorette to...
Reality Bites: Drunk History

By Pete Vonder Haar
Jul 9, 2014

There are a millions reality shows on the naked television. We're going to watch them all, one at a time. The premise for Comedy Central's Drunk History is sublime in its simplicity: inebriated people recounting historical events, accompanied by dialogue-accurate reenactments. With that, you get all of the occasional factual...
Reality Bites: The People's Couch

By Pete Vonder Haar
Jul 3, 2014

There are a million reality shows on the naked television. We're going to watch them all, one at a time. Remember those YouTube clips that came out after the "Rains of Castamere" episode of Game of Thrones, showing non-book readers' reacting to the Red Wedding? Those were fun, in their...
Reality Bites: Ladies of London

By Pete Vonder Haar
Jun 25, 2014

There are a million reality shows on the naked television. We're going to watch them all, one at a time. If it seems like I'm picking on Bravo lately, well, I am. They're one of the few networks airing new episodes of anything now that summer's here. It's this stuff...
Reality Bites: The Real Housewives of Orange County

By Pete Vonder Haar
Jun 11, 2014

There are a million reality shows on the naked television. We're going to watch them all, one at a time. I last wrote about a Real Housewives franchise in 2011 (kill me). At the time, I was naive enough to think Bravo's franchise series represented a low point in reality...
Reality Bites: Sex Sent Me To The ER

By Pete Vonder Haar
Jun 4, 2014

There are a million reality shows on the naked television. We're going to watch them all, one at a time. When you think about mankind's obsession with a) putting their genitals into things, and/or b) putting things in their genitals (and other areas), it's a wonder our emergency rooms aren't...
Reality Bites: Total Divas

By Pete Vonder Haar
May 28, 2014

There are a million reality shows on the naked television. We're going to watch them all, one at a time. It often seems like I'm the only male of my generation who didn't pay attention to professional wrestling as a lad. Most of my knowledge of of those guys came...
Reality Bites: Down East Dickering

By Pete Vonder Haar
May 21, 2014

There are a million reality shows on the naked television. We're going to watch them all, one at a time. The only conclusion I can reach concerning all these shows about pawn shops and junk collectors and barter economies is that someone in a pretty high position at A&E Networks...
Reality Bites: Hollywood Exes

By Pete Vonder Haar
May 14, 2014

There are a million reality shows on the naked television. We're going to watch them all, one at a time. You know, kids [hitches pants up to midsection and lights corncob pipe], it used to be that the term "celebrity" applied to someone famous by virtue of their being arguably...
Reality Bites: Property Brothers

By Pete Vonder Haar
May 7, 2014

There are a million reality shows on the naked television. We're going to watch them all, one at a time. The runaway popularity of home improvement shows in recent years speaks to two realities in America today. First, people appear to be far more interested in renovating existing properties, whether...
Reality Bites: Online Dating Rituals of the American Male

By Pete Vonder Haar
Apr 30, 2014

There are a million reality shows on the naked television. We're going to watch them all, one at a time. On one hand, I feel sorry for you single people. The dating world, from what I can tell, is insane. The number of sites and apps competing for your attention,...
Reality Bites: Ice Cold Gold

By Pete Vonder Haar
Apr 23, 2014

There are a million reality shows on the naked television. We're going to watch them all, one at a time. While researching the next show for "Reality Bites" (i.e. channel surfing after a few Stone IPAs), I came across Ice Cold Gold, Animal Planet's show about 21st century prospectors braving...
Reality Bites: Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives

By Pete Vonder Haar
Apr 16, 2014

There are a million reality shows on the naked television. We're going to watch them all, one at a time. Like most people, I've eaten at restaurants. As luck would have it, I've also been to several of the eateries featured on Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives. I recall meeting the...
Reality Bites: Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey

By Pete Vonder Haar
Apr 9, 2014

There are a million reality shows on the naked television. We're going to watch them all, one at a time. I've earned this. For all the real (the misguided veneration of Giordano Bruno) and imagined (no equal time for creationists) problems with Fox's Cosmos, it has one huge advantage going...

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