I Love New York 2: What a Train Wreck
We just caught the second half of I Love New York 2 (previously discussed here and here). Wow.
Even by the debased standards of reality television, the show couldn't be any more trashy. We felt our IQ plummeting as the minutes passed. We won't tune in next week, since we don't have the points to spare.
And no, we're not TV snobs. Our favorite shows include ANTM, Gossip Girl, and Desperate Housewives. We like good trash TV as much as, if not more than, the next guy (or girl). But it has to be quality trash, if that makes any sense. (As for defining quality trash, we cite Justice Stewart: we know it when we see it.)
But look, don't take our word for it. From a commenter (one of the few to opine on the show itself, as opposed to affirmation action, the legal academy, and the plight of minorities in America):
Since I'm not arguing about race, HLS, Obama or any of these issues, my post probably doesn't belong. But I was personally quite amused to [see] a Big Law associate on my secret vice: vh1 reality programming....Though I would have to say, seeing as how law firms are in the business of questioning the "good judgment" of associates, I think exhibiting an interest in dating NEW YORK [a/k/a Tiffany Pollard] is clearly a poor example of judgment.
She's crazy, looks like a [transsexual] with a cheap breast enhancement, and did I forget to mention CRAZY?
Frighteningly enough, the exact same description -- "crazy, looks like a [transsexual] with a cheap breast enhancement, and did I forget to mention CRAZY" -- also applies to Tiffany "New York" Pollard's mother, Sister Patterson. While we harbor a weakness for strong, African-American women, we want them to look like women (and work at the Justice Department).
And what about the fate of the two legal eagles on the show -- David Otunga, a Harvard Law School graduate and former Sidley Austin associate, and Juan McCullum, a 2L at Mississippi College of Law? As you can see from the show's Wikipedia page, which has already been updated with the results of tonight's episode, they're both still in the running.
And Christopher Columbus Langdell is turning over in his grave.
I Love New York 2 [VH1 (official website)]
I Love New York 2 [Wikipedia]
Earlier: Sidley Hates on Old People, Reality TV Stars
He Feels Pretty, Oh So Pretty
(12) Comments
if your first to post a comment but nobody is there to see it, are you still first???
Firster!
this show makes me sick. i thought it would be a nice break from involuntary confessions and the right to counsel. nope. kind of made me want to hurl. off to finish preparing for class tomorrow.
The HBIC is U-G-L-Y. I've never seen the show. Is this part of the joke?
"...looks like a [transsexual] with a cheap breast enhancement..."
I'd hit that in a New York minute!
Btw transsexual and transvestite are not the same thing. One actually feels he/she is the opposite gender than his/her body, whereas the other just likes to dress like the opposite gender...
I think Lat changed "tranvestite" to "transsexual" because it would make no sense for a transvestite - a man dressed up as a woman - to have had breast augmentation surgery.
But a post-operative transsexual, on the other hand, could have had a boob job.
Lat, I love you, but you're WAY OFF here. there is no reality show on TV (since, well, Flava of Love) that can beat how unpredictable, crazy, wild, and irreverent ILNY is. She is over the top, would kick the ass of any and all DOJ divas in a cage match (well, maybe except Monica), and Sister Patterson, is well, the icing on the cake. I've spend many a saturday watching the ILNY marathons, and can't wait to catch up on this. (What, you thought BIGLAW associates can make it home to watch it aired at its normally sched. time? riiiigghht).
WTF??????????
Who still watches Desperate Housewives?????
Maybe Lat can fill us in on "the most incredible ER ever" (i.e., whatever episode is showing this week) as well.
Desperate Housewives is the fourth-biggest show on television:
http://tv.zap2it.com/tveditorial/tve_main/1,1002,272|||weekly,00.html
Pretty left the show last night with great style. He threw a drink, cursed, and more. It is not clear why he did it, but soemthing was about to come out about him and he seemed to want to leave on his own terms.
I cannot imagine his peformance will bode well with the character and fitness folks.
I have to admit that I caught an episode of this show..just so I could see what the hell was going on and why many watch it. She is truly a self absorbed, unattractive, crazy, ignorant and selfish bitch. I was particularly shocked that a law student and a Harvard graduate would vie for this skank's attention. I am a lawyer and if I had an associate who was on that show..he would be fired. It is cheap and cheapens being a lawyer.