It’s a head-to-head competition of epic proportions … well, only if you’re idea of “epic” is cat-fighting, insufferable jerks. In a weird confluence of gay-versus-gay counter-programming, starting at 11 a.m. today, The A-List: New York on Logo and Most Eligible Dallas on Bravo both are running mini-marathons of their shows. That means local queer DVRs will be overly taxed, having to decide whether to watch a lot of gays behave like navel-gazing superstars when in fact they are negligible celebs in much smaller cities, or turning the satellite toward the hometown show, with a few gays who wander around Big D, acting like selfish assholes.
It’s a conundrum worthy of … well, not really worthy of anything.
Next week, The A-List: Dallas premieres (we’ll have a preview), but I doubt that show will rehabilitate Dallas. Considering that Big Rich Texas just ended Sunday night and The Real Housewives of Dallas is coming, our city looks to be the center of reality sniping. (Also in development: Storage Wars: Dallas, which probably won’t be too gay but is unlikely to present the city in a great light, if the word “wars” is in the title.)
Add to these TNT’s reboot of the soap Dallas and ABC’s upcoming spoof Good Christian Belles with Kristin Chenoweth, and even the fictionalized looks at our fair ‘burg seem to target the negative. (Perhaps the most offensive thing I’ve seen on Most Negligible is the woman who announced she was taking shooting lessons at a gun range, because “90 percent of all women in Dallas pack heat.” I’ve lived here more than 20 years, and I don’t even know a man who has a carry permit, not to say 90 percent of all women. But reality has so little to do with reality TV. And Dallas is its latest victim. Does anyone feel this is good for us? Anyone? Bueller?
Arnold, Storage Wars won’t be gay, but it will be an interesting show. Check out the main series on A&E!
So glad I don’t watch any of this garbage!
WHO WATCHES THIS STUFF?????
Bullseye! Great article!
who watches this stuff you ask? apparently all the other selfish asshole, A list wannabes – we almost all already know the early drama with A List Dallas – and if they’re anything like the ones on the New York version…I’ll wanna move….because it will be sad that 6 or 8 pretentious assholes, will set the standard for what people will think the rest of us are like – I’d of been happy if they’d never come here.
People can bitch, moan and be judgemental as hell about these shows but the truth of the matter is that most of you would do one if asked. Even more so in this environment where so many people are without jobs. Don’t forget that Divine became a star by eating Poodle poop. I haven’t seen enough to say if they represent gay life in our city or not. If you don’t think these people represent the Dallas A List then who would fit it?
if you actually read my post, you’d of caught that it said “and if they’re anything like the ones on the New York version”…which means, I watched that one twice, was totally turned off – and if the ones picked for the Dallas show are even remotely like those, I’ll not to even turn it on. and also meaning – I know what people have said about the New York episodes, and people being judgemental people, will say the same thing about Dallas – we already have a reputation for being pretentious…why add insult to injury, and prove all the naysayers correct. and you are again incorrect – I have no desire to ever be on one of these shows, hell, I won’t join TGRA or the United Court because I have no desire to be in the spotlight…paid or not, it would do nothing for me…that, and I’m a fairly private person…and probably too boring for anyone to care about me being on TV.