So I have a guilty pleasure. (ok, who doesn’t). Emily had been talking about this show that she thought I should check out. Normally I wouldn’t watch something like this, it’s not my style. I am more of the 24, Bones, Heroes type with a little How I Met your Mother thrown in for the laughs. Reality shows are not my bag. I can barely sit through an episode of American Idol now (though I did watch the first season fairly intently). I never even got into survivor. So when Em said I should check out “Beauty and the Geek” I kind of rolled my eyes.
Then I watched one. I got sucked in by the megalomaniacal machine that is reality TV. It was actually pretty good! It breaks the mold of the reality’s prettiest home videos. For those that don’t know, they took a bunch of Beauty queen types, Models and such, and paired them up with a bunch of Geeks. Geeks that would make me look like Tom Cruise. They team up and do different challenges and such to help round out each other as a person. The girls would have to do things that would be outside of their norm, like build a dog house. The geeks would have to follow suit by getting a girls phone number in the park. Granted I came into the show late in the game, but I was able to identify a little too well with some of the characters and it was cool to see the development non both the guys and the girls.
Well, last night was the end of the competition. There were two teams left and at that point, you see the growth and such of each person, you are usually pretty happy for whoever wins. Except one person. Cecille. She was one of the girls and from the start she approached the show for the stand point of “a reality show where the goal is to win” (they did a lot of flash backs and such so I could see from most of the start of the show). It seems like all the other people were there for the experience and were enjoying the time they had. Well, that came back to bite her in the end. The downside is that she was teamed up with Nate. Nate is the epitome of the nice guy. Heart of gold, helpful to anyone, and a huge star wars fan (always a plus). The other team, Scooter and Megan, were just all around awesome. They look and act like they had grown as people through the whole experience.
Well, as you can tell, I really started getting into the show. Andrew even came out to watch (hopefully he learned a few things and wasn’t just watching to see cute girls). I won’t ruin the ending for those who have DVR’d it and haven’t seen it yet. Not that I think it would be a surprise at all. Next week is the Reunion show and re-cap so catch it if you want to see what I am talking about!
Curse you oh father of mine for taht comment about me.