Temptation Island

January 10, 2001

I have seen the future of television and it is Temptation Island. It is trashy and horrible and utterly watchable. I hate myself for watching it. The basic concept of the show (if you don’t already know) is that 4 committed couples get taken to an island where they get split up and grouped with a bunch of attractive singles (of the opposite sex, of course). Then the couples get to see if they can stay together in the face of Temptation. Fox, as always, is the only network silly enough to actually air stuff like this. But thank you Fox.

At first, I felt bad for these couples because they looked like they were completely ambushed by the show. But then my finely tuned sense of schadenfreude kicked in and I started reveling at the stupidity shown by these people. I mean, who would volunteer for this?

I don’t see the future episodes being very entertaining though. It’ll be finely packaged melodrama like all the other reality television shows, and it will fall back in the pack.

In other news, two out of the five feet of my office chair have broken off. So now I have to kind of lean forward in this awkward way just to sit at the computer. I’ve had this chair for two years and it’s completely falling apart already. I think I sit in it too much. Anyone know of a good solid wood chair?

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