With the recent spate of gay teen suicide and the debut of a campaign to let them know that It Gets Better (here are my two favorites), there's been an encouraging upswing in concern for gay youth. Less uplifting, though, we just had the debut of "The A-List." In a word: oy.
First, these guys might be on "a" list, but it's sure ain't a letter so low in the alphabet. When you spend the first half of your show justifying your "A-List" status and dropping sad names, you ain't A-List. And, of course, there is the self-evident fact that anyone who was really A-List wouldn't be caught dead on this show.
Second, oh Mike Ruiz! I loved his appearances on RuPaul's Drag Race; he seemed so fun and, yes, very hot. Unlike the rest of the horrors on this show (Reichen? A hairdresser? A bunch of bottom-of-the-barrel models/boytoys? Oy!) he's also actually talented and successful. And, yet, he's on this show. It's very distressing.
Third, except for Mr. Ruiz and Reichen's Brazilian piece, the cutest things on this show are the hairdresser's pugs. These boys need to step away from the eyebrow wax. (Seriously, though, those pugs are adorable!)
Fourth, these guys are dumber than a can of spray tan. They have all the wit of Oscar Wilde's wallpaper.
Five, OMG ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ! Seriously, they're the most boring gays ever. Tired bitchiness
So, in sum and in total: ugh.
4 comments:
All the negative reviews, I've read about this show, make me wanna watch it.
Arte: You know, when the previews and all came out, and everyone was trashing it, that's when I really decided to watch it. And... well, as you can see, it wasn't the confection of ludicrous famewhoring I was hoping for. It was just boring, and sad, and disheartening.
I did wonder when it became cool for gay men to be so dumb. Seriously, is being empty headed the key to making it on the "A" list?
Well, GayProf, one must of course always be cognizant that they aren't at all the "true" A-List. Real A-Listers wouldn't be caught dead on a reality show, especially a low-rent one like this. I only know one person who, at least at one point in his life, was an A-List NYC gay (though he winces at that moniker and prefers "weapons-grade gay") and he at least is a very smart, very articulate man.
And anyway, those desperate to be on a reality show are probably not going to be deeply intellectual. Narcissists and drama queens make better show, or at least that's what producers think.
Plus, not all gay men can be as smart and witty as we are, Strong Amazon Sister, more's the pity.
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