Your attention please! We would like to kick off the season finale of EW.com’s groundbreaking-ish video series Réalité with three haikus that reflect this week’s featured shows: Bravo’s Top Chef, MTV’s Jersey Shore, and Fox’s So You Think You Can Dance. Press play below as my cohost Kristen Baldwin and I bid bittersweet adieu to this fall’s crop of unscripted ridiculata, and please do mark your calendars for the Jan. 15 season 4 premiere of Idolatry. Oh, and in the meantime, for all my reality-show rants, follow me on Twitter @EWMichaelSlezak!
Sixty-three degrees
Hot enough to cook an egg?
Not for Padma L
Holy effing skanks
Muscle milk and booze collide
Who cleans that hot tub?
Dude named Legacy
Crab-crawls right into my heart
Better than ‘Porn Dance’
Related:
Tanner Stransky's 'Jersey Shore' premiere recap
Kate Ward's 'SYTYCD' recap
Archana Ram's 'Top Chef' recap
SEASON FINALE?! WTF?
You mean you won’t be pulling double duty by doing Idolatry AND Réalité?!
Oh, and I love that you and Kristen do things together like go to Coney Island and see the World’s Smallest Woman. Take a video camera next time!
But I’m not gonna watch Idol this year, giving it up b/c the whole Paula thing, ready for a change. So should I still watch Idolatory b/c you guys are the most important show on the internet. Bla da dee bla back at ya Kristen.
so you’re not watching idol because a judge left? i thought this show was about the singers?
never get that lady to be your realite partner again! “Why would I want to see people who I don’t even know dance?” …um, because they’re incredible? Because actual real dancing can be a beautiful art and entertaining? Because they have real talent? Because, just like American Idol (does she not watch that because she doen’t “personaly know or know of” the contestants going in?) you get to know the performers throughout the series. Does she never watch a movie unless she “knows who the actors are” to begin with? Her ‘SYTYCD’ hate–or the reasons she gave for her hate of it anyways, is so nosesical! How can she even work there? I could go ahead and say “why would I care about the opinions of some lady I’ve never heard of before?” Ugh.. that kind of hate/ignorance is just frustrating!
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LOL
I have hope for a future where there are no more craptastic ‘reality’ shows like this Jersey shiite. I cannot imagine sitting down for two hours (!!!!) and listening to some insipid, vacuous, drunk, overtanned, incoherent, plastic guys and girls spout on and on about themselves. What is wrong with everyone that a network saw fit to produce a show like this????? PLEASE, everyone, stop watching shows like this. Rant over.
But it was hilarious to cover on Realite, IMO!
Agreed. Kristen’s particular take on it was worth it.
I shall miss you, Slezack and Baldwin. Untill January…
Legacy ROCKS!!
love me some Legacy!
Thank you for Realite!!! I always love your snide but honest comments about reality tv. Now I just have to wait for Idolatry!
season finale?? noooooooo!
Idolatry in just 5 weeks? wooot!!!
So you guys aren’t going to cover Top Chef/SYTYCD’s finale?
P.S. You think seeing “You Got Served” in theaters is bad? I saw “Stomp the Yard”… and yes, there’s shame. And a little pride.
Michael Slezak will cover SYTYCD finale..why??…
Adam Lambert is performing…”Whataya want from me”…
Is just been announced…
63 degree CELCIUS guys…145.4 degrees Fahrenheit
Is it odd that I couldn’t care less about the return of American Idol, but I’m completely excited for the return of Idolatry? I really am not excited at all about AI, and I’m probably only going to watch so that I’ll have the proper frame of reference when I watch Idolatry.
Ditto
NOOOOOOO….but there are still two more weeks of SYTYCD? how can this be?
JEN FTW! It didn’t matter what Jen did, the producers and judges already wanted her gone to have the Voltaggio’s battle it out in the finale with Kevin, who has the most wins of anyone.
I think Kristen is forgetting that this last episode of Top Chef occurred after the contestants had time to go home and regroup. So, Jen was no longer in her suicidal funk. She was refreshed and back to her old self. It was not her time to go. The judges had no problem with her duck other than that she chose to prepare it differently. They had no problem with the taste of it, unlike Michael with his raw egg & Kevin with his tough beef. This was producer shenanigans.
According to Tom Collichio’s blog, Jen’s meal was terribly oversalted, and she was a clear elimination. Unfortunately the editors chose not to show it so to keep the tension.