I do not routinely watch reality TV shows. In fact, I find them kind of trashy and fake (despite the name.) Nevertheless, I have been watching the second season of Tool Academy since it began. It was somewhat of an unintentional endeavor. There was nothing much else on TV and my friend Carl convinced me to watch an episode or two with him. I ended up watching the next one and the next and hence I got addicted to it. It’s like Law and Order or CSI. I find it overrated but once I start watching I can’t stop. Fortunately I do not see this addiction going past the end of this season finale. And since there are only four contestants less, this season’s days are clearly numbered.
For those of you who have not seen Tool Academy, it is a show on VH1 about guys who were bad boyfriends. They’re girlfriends signed them up for Tool Academy, where they go to learn to be better boyfriends. Each week has a theme like maturity or fidelity. They accompany their girlfriends to a therapy session and then compete against each other in the challenge of the day where one of them wins a date with his girlfriend. At the end of each episode, a guy is expelled from the academy and has to go in front of the mansion where all the girls are standing. His girlfriend then decides to either keep him even though he’s a tool or dump him on the spot and move on. Read the rest of this entry »
