This show, "The A-List," coming in October to a network that I will never, ever turn on now, is the most humorless, tone-deaf, nasty, vain little culture product I have ever seen. It's not an "interesting documentary look" at how some people are classist shitheels, or at "the way we live now" (which is apparently in a pit of shallowness and degradation). It's just bad. If I wanted to watch people burn money and waste their lives in such a fashion, I'd go down the road and watch people smoke coke. Or, in this case, I guess, go over to their heavily-mortgaged second houses and watch them cook ketamine for their dinner parties. In what is somewhat hope-inducing news, the commenters at EW and elsewhere had a similar reaction. (via)
Tuesday, August 31, 2010
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This is a piece of Today's Gay News that I simply can't find it within myself to pay attention to, much less type words about.
How much did Ciprianis pay to get in this show?
YOUR MARTINIS SUCK!
(that second tag *snort)
the most humorless, tone-deaf, nasty, vain little culture product I have ever seen
Oooooh, I know the answer!
What is...the Republican Party?
Everyone who has ever aspired to fame without possessing any discernable talent has now been given a television show.
The Reality TV trend will end and we can all channel surf basic cable without encountering "unscripted" scenes of degradation, misery and conspicuous consumption.
Do you know how much (more) money Andy Warhol would have made if he had lived through this trend?
He INVENTED people shit talking each other and starting drunken fights on camera.
= more Joe D'Allesandro & Holly Woodlawn disasters = awesome.
That would be speed freaks and not drunks, but 1 million times yes to the governing idea.
Warhol was a casting genius and he'd be richer and tv would also be better for it.
These fucking amateurs don't have the first idea how to make compelling *really* happen.
Speed freaks AND drunks, I think we can agree?
And mmmmm... Little Joe...
Oh yes, we can agree. No filmmaker better encapsulates the ethos late 20thC and beyond than Warhol. His prescience still has the capacity to surprise.
Heh... the should have just called this show "The Chelsea Girls" in homage.
God, I'm fascinated by the sentence "I'm definitely driven by success." It makes less sense every time I listen to it. Does he mean that success drives him? What does "drive" mean in this context? Is it relevant that he's driving a car while he says it? What does success drive him to do? Become successful? But isn't that just circular thinking? Does he mean he's driven by the prospects of success?
Then right after that comes the sentence "I only date power gays," which makes me giggle.
Yeah, I think "driven" = "given a boner" in this context.
It's the first sentence that really gets me. I can't listen to it again to get the quote right, but explaining why New York is "definitely an A-list town" is JUST REALLY SOMETHING.
All of those clothes are sinfully tacky.
No kidding. His personal shopper should be fired. Did he not see that puffy sleeves Seinfeld episode?
This is really just Jersey Shore for a different set of stereotypes.
it's "Sex and the City" w/gays instead of females.
"The great thing about being gay in New York City is that it's no different than being straight in New York."
classist shitheels for EVERYONE!!!
I really enjoyed "the A-list is a crowded room. If you don't have a pot to piss in, you probably shouldn't be there." So the A-list is a crowded room full of chamber pots? ewwwww!
VERSAILLES LIVES.
i believe he said it was no different than being straight in "Nork"
Zeitgeist 2004 calling!
Logo's touched the taint of gay television, and it doesn't have anything to do with Andy Cohen? What a world!
I'd watch LOGO more often, but those ASPCA ads are a boner-killer.`1
Jesus Homo Christ this is depressing.
TGIL
Thank God I'm a Lesbian
I know there is a despicable show about lesbos too, but a) it's on premium cable and b) we really do fall under the radar most of the time.
Thank god I'm a d-list straight man.
This is a sick gay minstrel show about shallow people leading shallow lives...Logo is a terrible disappointment...Shame.
@Goons, as a palate cleanser: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AdvijqbIJ_c
A-list people don’t do reality shows.
If we’re going to go there: Mark Jacobs, Ryan Murphy, David Geffen, and Neil Patrick Harris are A-List gays. The guys on this sad little show are ... best described in the terms of psychopathology.
I am trying to think what a (fill in the other despised minority of your choice here) version of this show would look like. I think I just broke several laws in Canada.
How can these pieces of garbage not see that they are playing into the most vicious stereotypes imaginable? Did they learn how to be gay exclusively from reading those comic books passed out by Seventh Day Adventists?
Sorry. Don't see any of these fellows on any sort of list.
Oh, they're on "a" list, totally. The one marked "Clueless Twits."
Don't you understand that the marketing of this show is DESIGNED to produce revulsion? Choire, you're playing right into their trap but getting yourself all riled up to hate it and to hate all the "nobodies" on the show. Part of the joy of watching these circus freaks is to laugh at them and mock them without mercy.
If you really disapproved you would omit them from The Awl and never mention them again.