Two television addicts chat about the TLC reality show.
Tag: reality TV
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Trade real life for reality TV
What streaming show should you watch based on your quarantine status?
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Getting ‘Graphic!’ at the Chicago Humanities Festival
A preview of four talks this weekend
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Chicago Teachers Union is taking its planned Friday strike very seriously, and other news
Also, the Blackhawks make the Stanley Cup playoffs.
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Turn yourself over to Love Prison
A new A&E dating series makes incarceration scarier than ever.
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Dating Naked needs to put its goddamned clothes on and go
VH1’s new dating show is trashier than you’d even imagine a show called Dating Naked could be.
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MTV’s Catfish isn’t just fun and mind games anymore
A new season promises a “darker” side of deceiving people on the Internet.
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I’m watching Lindsay Lohan’s reality show and that’s probably not OK
Fresh out of rehab, Lohan gets a reality show on Oprah’s network.
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Time flies on 90 Day Fiance
In the new TLC reality show, American guys and their foreign brides wed on the double.
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The constructive hoax of Propaganda
Noting the Chicago premiere of Slavko Martinov’s faux documentary, which screens twice this week at the Gene Siskel Film Center
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Broken dreams and buggy windows on Discovery’s Amish Mafia
Season two kicks off with a pretty thorough recap of season one.
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Emma Watson in The Bling Ring: Acting as 3-D printing
Notes on the young actress’s turn as real-life criminal turned reality TV star Alexis Neiers
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Small Town Security: Claustrophobic, visually repellent, and really good
I don’t want to live with them, but I want to hang out every now and then.
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Homer Simpson, Don Draper, and other sociopaths
Adam Kotsko discusses Why We Love Sociopaths: A Guide to Late Capitalist Television, his book on contemporary television