I have classes five days a week, I work almost every weekend at Northfork Theatre, I volunteer with a bowling league and Girl Scouts, I have very little time to watch television. Besides the time factor, none of my favorites are on anymore. No more Xena: Warrior Princess, no more Buffy the Vampire Slayer, ER lost my interest (I lost it when they killed off the firefighter lesbian Sandy Lopez), and I try to watch All My Children but now Bianca is leaving yet again (and made Maggie into the cheating ex girlfriend). South of Nowhere and the L Word both have very short seasons. What’s left to watch?
I’m going to admit, I’m a huge Bravo watcher. When I get home from work or somewhere else, there’s bound to be some reality show on Bravo. It really started with my brother Chris as he watched Project Runway. It was Heidi Klum that cemented the affair between me and Project Runway. Then there was Top Chef which always made me hungry and willing to try new foods. I even watched Top Design. I have no clue about interior design but danm, I was impressed with what these people could come up with. It’s 10 AM on a Thrusday and Shear Genius is on, and I’m watching it. It’s about a group of hair stylist fighting for the title of “Shear Genius” and today they are trying to take black hair and turning it into a “level 8 blond.” Yeah, I’m sitting here and asking myself “There are levels of hair color?” but it’s so damn addicting to watch.
My all time favorite Bravo reality show is Work Out. I sit and stare at the television as gym drama unfolds on my television screen. I watched the first season as Jackie Warner, the woman who made her dream gym into a reality, fight it out with annoying clients, stubborn personal trainers, and of course…her feisty, biting girlfriend Mimi. So one reason why I watched Work Out is that it makes me feel better about my own life. I’m not kidding. Jackie’s relationships with her staff, her girlfriend, even her mother was full of drama. The new season (the second season) has not slowed down since the last. Jackie has now broken up with Mimi and is now “casually dating” two women-an old flame, and one of the trainers on her staff, Rebecca.
It gets me by when I feel the need to watch something on television. Bravo is addicting and I’m not afraid to admit it. Sure I’m sitting and waiting to find out who got shot on the season finale of South of Nowhere and wondering what will happen to the women of the L Word next January. Will Ashley and Spencer stay together or has Aiden destroyed the beloved “Spashley” coupling? On the L Word, will Dana continue visiting Alice as a ghost? Will Shane get a new haircut? Will Bette and Tina get back together for the 50th time? Only time will tell. However in the meantime…Heidi Klum and Jackie Warner will take care of my television needs.
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