It all started out as pure curiosity. As with most shows I randomly TiVo, I think of it all as research. But the last few weeks I've started feeling less interested in watching Bad Girls Club. It has turned into a less love / more hate relationship. It's very stressful watching girls - no, women - fight and yell at each other over every little thing. And it definitely isn't the most relaxing way to end my evening. However, I know what I'm in for when I hit play: skanky outfits, dirty dancing, screaming, pushing, clubs, drunken everything... It's a buffet of class-less quotes. Top it off with rather intense hard rock / metal in the background of the scenes, and say hello to a rising blood pressure. It's tiring, and I suppose if you've seen one BGC episode, you've seen them all. Especially since we've seen every inch of that Bad Girls House. I'm bored.
What I've realized this week is that "reality" shows are more interesting when various locations are involved. I think that's why Tyra always scoops up her models and takes them to another country. Or why Real Housewives have weekend getaways. The change of scenery gives viewers something interesting and different to look at, rather than a repetitive series of events and visuals. If I wanted to see the same thing again and again, I'd quit paying for cable just stare at my own walls.
Bad Girls Club needs a destination. Take me to Hawaii (a la ANTM), or Miami (a la Real Housewives of Orange County), or San Francisco (a la The Bachelor this week.) Those are the escapes I'm looking for in my not-so-real reality television.
So... Why Am I Still Watching Bad Girls Club?
As we were reminded in the beginning of tonight's episode, last week Annie "won the respect of her fellow bad girls." She finally fought back, and it was all too satisfying to watch. It's pretty amazing casting; There's a reason ratings are so high. These girls are absurdly immature and self-centered. And even while they're being completely ridiculous, they come to realizations about things that should be very simple and clear. But since they're so challenged in the *good head on her shoulders* department, these realizations are pretty impressive.
This week, Natalie wanted to party. Go figure! After she explained how she lost her partner in crime party girl Flo, she noted that maybe she should stop being a bitch - because karma might get her too. Yet she then proceeds to pursue a new man even though she has hardly broken up with her current. She's a "hard to please type of girl" with a list of rules for the new suitor. Well, alright then Natalie. I almost forgot that it is all about you.
Annie was her hysterical self, tampering with Kate's foods, and "giggling like a little girl" when Paul dumps her for making out with another girl. To that Annie said, "If you're doing it for a free drink / sorority style, that's one thing..." Oh, the standards.
Natalie took out only the pretty girls about twenty minutes into the episode. This started a fight that lasted through the entire second half of the show. The fight is between Flo and Natalie (who states her angry questions like strange poetry: "why. is. every.body. mad. why. are. you. mad." She basically explodes onto Flo before she can even pick a fight. Flo replies, "I'm gonna sit back and watch you self-destruct." The irony is... that's exactly what I'm doing every Tuesday night, continuing to tune in, just to see what in the world they will scream about next.
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