Wicked Attitude

The man and I were looking forward to this new show starring Ted Allen (Queer Eye for the Straight Guy, Top Chef, Iron Chef America) since it was set up as a “Mythbusters” for food.  What it’s turned out to be is just plain disappointing.  For one, Ted comes off as the poor man’s Alton Brown and I know he’s better than the cheesy schtick he delivers during this show.  The worst part are these “food techs” that they have to do the demonstrations.  It’s like the director/producers got family members who wanted to be on TV and told them to overact during the dramatizations.  All it does is insult the viewer and make the point of the show seem less credible.  Let’s hope they cancel this and quick.  Good idea…poorly executed.

I used to listen to Dr Drew on Loveline with Adam Carolla back in the day on Pirate Radio in SoCal.  I always thought he gave good solid advice and never seemed overly judgmental more of a “tough love” advocate.  Then he got his own TV show Strictly Sex with Dr Drew and the following Strictly Dr Drew on Discovery Health, you could see a slight transition from a tough love administrator to a preachier version of his former self.  Then comes Celebrity Rehab and a TON of other TV appearances where anyone who had never heard of Dr. Drew certainly had now. 

Then there was tonight’s Baby Borrowers reunion in which he and some windbag from morning television were the “moderators.”  It was quite obvious they never watched the entire show because their questions or comments were proven wrong by a few of them and they almost seemed proud that these “stupid kids” were now broken up to prove a point.  Then Drew said something to the effect of when one of them said they were broken up he said “thank God because you were horrible parents!”  Both my husband and I were shocked at his complete judgment of these kids and acting like the holier than thou diety he seems to think he is.  I mean he didn’t even know who to look at when they were calling out specific couples.  More and more you see him calling out celebrities on their behavior as though he’s treating them and giving you a peek into their personal files.

He went from someone I used to think had a pretty good head on his shoulders to being the equivalent of Dr. Phil who has little to no credibility.  Enjoy the ride while you can Drew, it won’t be long before you get the backlash too.