:: Wednesday, June 04, 2003 ::

Dog Eat Dog - what a great fucking show! I have it listed to the side as a guilty pleasure, and I can't get enough of it! I sat through the whole hour with a big, wide grin on my face the entire time, and loving every minute of it. Laughing out loud, cheering, booing, the whole works. And this isn't even a show that really has any redeeming value - no well-rounded characters portrayed by skilled actors, no dramatic tension, no sitcom setups and funny one-liners, no "Law and Order twists," nothing. It's just an hour of sheer escapist fun.
It doesn't hurt that the host, Brooke Burns, is hot, or that you get to see girls in bikinis getting wet in the "tank" (you get to see guys in their bathing suits, too - it's not that sexist). But it's not just that - there's fun, creative stunts, sometimes stupid and sometimes erudite trivia, as well as ever-shifting alliances and good old trash-talking. But most of all, everyone on the show, including Brooke, is having fun. You can clearly see it, and it's infectious as hell. And it translates right through the screen into your living room. I have fun watching it. And for a summer (or almost summer) weekday evening, what more can you want? I'm hooked!

Oh, and if you haven't seen the show, there actually is kind of a "Law and Order twist" - at the end, the contestants that have been eliminated and sent to the "Dog Pound" have one last chance to beat the winner, or "Top Dog." If the Top Dog wins, he or she gets to take home $25,000. But if the Dog Pound wins, they split up the money amongst themselves, $5000 apiece, and the Top Dog, the winner, the champion...goes home with nothing.

I love this show!

:: posted by Rob 5:34 AM [+] ::

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