Tag: Reality TV
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Lessons in Living from ‘The Gentle Art of Swedish Death Cleaning’
Last week kind of got away from me. It was eventful. Our cats chased a mouse from the screened in porch (we have a crack under the door) and into the house during the final Vanderpump Rules Reunion episode. This has happened once or twice before, and usually, my live-in mouse remover/exterminator XFE takes charge…
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Reality TV Time: Escape to the Country
If you are a reasonably cautious person, you are now well into your fifth month of quarantine/self-isolation/stay-at-home/work-from-home-ness. Congratulations on caring not only for your own health, but for your community as a whole. I’m sure, like most of us, you are hankering for a getaway. Maybe a trip abroad (HA!). Or, slightly more realistically, someplace…
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RIP Live PD
I don’t think I’m being overly dramatic when I say: It has been a couple of seriously heavy weeks in this country. And, honestly, I don’t even feel like writing. Literally, the only writing I seem to be able to force myself to do is contractually obligated items with a hard deadline. I’m in awe…
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Reality TV Time: Too Hot to Handle
Whelp, Netflix has done it again. The streaming TV service is legit winning the quarantine game, releasing one splendid, bingeworthy, let’s-forget-what-day-it-is-and-escape-this-hellish-landscape-called-modern-life program after another. Their latest offering: #THTH, otherwise known as “Too Hot to Handle.” (I know I said I was going to talk about Tiger King, but honestly, in this fast-paced, binging environment, TK…
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Reality TV Time: Southern Charm New Orleans
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: having a cold sucks. Especially in the summer. I’ve been sick for about a week. And it really sucks. It’s also been raining in D.C. for basically a month. Sure, there were a couple of days of modest sunshine, but mostly, it’s been rain: warm, humid,…
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Reality TV Time: Below Deck Mediterranean
My travel-buddy-for-life XFE and I just got back from a soccer roadtrip through the South, which was basically 3,000 miles of varying degrees of traffic and highways broken up by stops for soccer (go Tottenham), kitschy tourist locales (I’d never been to South of the Border, but I have now), barhopping at country honkytonks (Nashville…
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Reality TV Time: Why Live PD is the Wreck I Can’t Help But Watch
Don’t mind me. I’m not even here. I mean, I’m here, but I’m not supposed to be. I’ve got a couple of major projects gobbling up my time, a bunch of looming deadlines, and I’m waiting to jump on the phone with a potential new client, but I had to just stop by and ask…
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5 British TV Shows to Replace Downton Abbey
A sad(ish) thing happened to Anglophiles and history nerds a couple of weeks ago: Downton Abbey ended after six seasons. I watched a couple of seasons of Downton Abbey, but I was not a consistent watcher, although I do thoroughly appreciate the way they would just hurtle forward in time to avoid expensive production moments.…
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The Unlikely Entrepreneur of Reality TV: Big Giant Swords
I’ve been neglecting someone on my little blog here. A group of people really, near and dear and close to my heart. My reality TV friends. Don’t worry. My non-husband-for-life XFE and I have been watching tons of crap on television. I mean, it’s winter, after all. And both “Vanderpump Rules” and “Real Housewives of…