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Add a Comment I like to watch (instantly): “30 Days” Certain reality shows work for me, like “Project Runway” and “Top Chef.” I like thinking about the creative process and how it works under varying pressures. Both of those are getting old, though. The formulas are cliché, and every hackneyed improvement they add on for freshness just trashes things up. I haven’t kept up with them. I usually feel kind of dirty after watching that stuff, as if I just fed my brain a bunch of cotton candy. “30 Days” is perhaps the broccoli of reality TV. It’s the brainchild of Morgan Spurlock, that dude from Super Size Me who ate nothing but McDonald’s for a month. His TV show is modeled similarly. In the first episode, Spurlock and his girlfriend try to live on minimum wage for 30 days. It’s a fascinating exploration of poverty and, unintentionally I think, it showed the effects of being broke on an otherwise happy relationship. That’s the genius of immersing oneself in a drastically different lifestyle for 30 days. The truths unearthed are nuanced and unexpected. For the rest of the first season, other people undergo the experiment. A Christian homophobic guy from a small, all-American hometown moves in with a gay man in San Francisco’s Castro District for a month. A super healthy, totally sober mom binge drinks for 30 days to better understand her college freshman daughter. Consumer city slickers move off the grid to a commune that works to eliminate its carbon footprint. Results are mixed. Not everyone has a breakthrough. But ideological divides are probed in a way that pundits and arguments can’t manage. The show’s motto is: Putting the middle back in America. Even if an episode’s test-subject doesn’t grow from walking in someone else’s shoes, at least one ep is likely to alter your opinion. Reviewing “The River” ABC’s “found footage” horror series “The River” airs tonight at 8 p.m. See what our film and television reviewer, Devin D. O’Leary, has to say about it in this week’s Idiot Box. Alibi sighting in “Breaking Bad”
 The culprit in question View/Add Comments [ 4 ] “Dateline” Comes to Town Starting tonight at 8 p.m., NBC will air a special two-hour “Dateline” episode dealing with the notorious West Mesa Murder Mystery. Reporter Josh Mankiewicz reports from Albuquerque on the story that made national headlines—the discovery of 11 female bodies buried on the city’s West Mesa. The story is told through the eyes of missing persons Detective Ida Lopez. While the killer remains very much unknown, a rash of recent clues has revived interest in this shocking story. The episode, titled “Somebody’s Daughter,” will air Friday, Dec. 10, from 8 p.m. to 10 p.m. on KOB-4. View/Add Comments [ 4 ] Boob TubePeople in America are freaking out that Katy Perry might have shown some cleavage on Sesame Street—which, no doubt, would have traumatized all those toddlers out there who were never breast-fed by their Puritanical parents. Meanwhile in Japan, this is what passes for children’s entertainment. It’s called “The Ancient Dogoo Girls.” It’s about superpowered alien bras. Or so I gather. OMG y'all! Today's 90210I've been waiting for this day since 1990 something. View/Add Comments [ 1 ] KNME’s “The Line” I’ll be on tonight. The episode airs at 7 p.m. There won’t be a repeat on Sunday. We talked a lot about the primary, the resulting candidates, immigration laws, the film industry and Neil Patrick Harris. Gary Coleman: R.I.P. Sniff. Yes, it’s true. The star of The Kid With the Broken Halo is now a real angel in Heaven. The No. 1 pick on VH1’s “100 Greatest Kid Stars” passed away today at the Utah Valley Regional Medical Center in Provo. An intercranial brain hemorrhage is listed as his cause of death. Perhaps he was jealous of all the attention Brett Michaels was getting. Who can say? Coleman is survived by his wife of two years, Shannon Price, and—shockingly enough—his decrepit TV dad Conrad Bain. Coleman was 42. Feel free to leave your condolences on the as-yet-unpurchased website garycoleman.com. View/Add Comments [ 2 ] “Lost” Ending: Winner or Loser?The Interwebz are ablaze today with chatter about last night’s “Lost” series finale. A lot of people are anti, a sizable minority are pro. Me? ... I’ve come to terms with it. I got six—well, five and a half, let’s say—highly enjoyable seasons out of the show, have a ton of indelible TV memories and got to watch the cast ride off into the sunset (kinda literally). None of that is diminished by a finale that failed to provide concrete answers to mysteries I knew wouldn’t be solved anyway. Though “The End” didn’t provide the monumental, soul-cleansing sense of closure I was wishing for, it didn’t diminish or alter anything that came before it. Of all the after-show buzz I’ve waded through, Noel Murray’s exhaustive analysis in The Onion’s AV Club is certainly the most well-thought-out. Give it a read here and see what you think. View/Add Comments [ 2 ] | 
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