{"id":4057,"date":"2009-01-23T06:42:00","date_gmt":"2009-01-23T11:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=4057"},"modified":"2009-01-23T06:42:00","modified_gmt":"2009-01-23T11:42:00","slug":"death-of-a-theory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=4057","title":{"rendered":"Death Of A Theory"},"content":{"rendered":"

A couple of seasons ago, I thought I’d pretty much figured out the formula behind Bravo’s lifestyle-reality shows – like Project Runway<\/em> and Top Chef <\/em>and a few other vastly less-interesting ones.\u00a0 Each season, the final 3-4 contestants would be:<\/p>\n

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  1. The insufferably arrogant (often gay) guy:\u00a0 Santino (Project Runway 2), Kevin (PR 3), Hung (Top Chef 3)<\/li>\n
  2. The extremely talented guy:\u00a0 Daniel Vosovich (PR2)<\/li>\n
  3. The hot babe:\u00a0 Casey Thompson (TC3), Jillian (PR4), Leah (PR5)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    This season, Top Chef<\/em>‘s producers must have read this blog and decided to change it up a bit.<\/p>\n

    Oh, some of the picks seem easy enough:\u00a0 Stephan, the prickly, boundlessly arrogang German, seems a shoo-in for the arrogant guy title.\u00a0 And Fabio the hilarious Italian and Jeff the cool, calculating Floridian seem like solid shots for the Mr. Competent slot.<\/p>\n

    But the Hot Babe title seems to be heading for a let-down – which is a double-shame, given the bumper-crop of fantasticality that the show stasrted with.\u00a0 Of course, Lauren – the Army wife from Savannah – was the standout in the bodacity department, but she flamed out on Week 1; the other obvious frontrunner, Jill, got ejected in Week 2.\u00a0 Things plateaued at a good level for several weeks – with the ever-so-cute Radhika and the very-hot-for-40 (hey, I’m 46, and you find looks where you can) Ariane holding out until mid-season.\u00a0 But both the latter were ejected in consecutive weeks, right after the non-standout Melissa, leaving the show with only the plucky, overly-tattoed lipstick lesbian Jamie, the talented but bizarre Carla (who never seems to blink) and Leah, who seems to have survived primarily because the romantic tension with the cartoon-y Hosea has got to be like catnip to the producers.<\/p>\n

    So we’ll see.<\/p>\n

    As a consolation prize, it’s fun to see that Chicago’s greatest linguistic trait – the city’s natives’ facility and gusto at swearing – crosses ethnic lines; Radhika, a first-generation child of Indian immigrants,at a party for the ejected contesants,cusses with the joie de blasph\u00e9matoire<\/em>\u00a0 <\/em>of a second-generation Pole from Joliet<\/a> or, perhaps, the governor.<\/p>\n

    (Not safe for audio<\/em> at work…)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    A couple of seasons ago, I thought I’d pretty much figured out the formula behind Bravo’s lifestyle-reality shows – like Project Runway and Top Chef and a few other vastly less-interesting ones.\u00a0 Each season, the final 3-4 contestants would be: The insufferably arrogant (often gay) guy:\u00a0 Santino (Project Runway 2), Kevin (PR 3), Hung (Top […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-n-e"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4057","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4057"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4057\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}