Some mtv show about some girl.

Original post written January 23rd, 2010. I think I was drunk.

My Life as Liz
TV show

So my friend worked on that mtv show 'My Life as Liz,' and she bitched about it a lot because- and this doesn't surprise me- they manipulate the people in it to the point where it's almost scripted. I'm not a fan of reality shows (okay, I have to admit I've watched some Jersey Shore but, that's like... this beautiful, hypnotic disaster of a car wreck that you can't look away from even though you know it's poison and your soul just dies a little) but this show is about some high school girl who's supposed to be the antithesis of the shallow high school girl.

Like Daria. Except in a way, this show was made as if Daria never existed, and that wouldn't surprise me since the people who are teenagers now have never known mtv to actually play music videos, and Beavis and Butthead are partially known relics of the past. This is the generation whose entire knowledge of classic rock and other old songs comes from Guitar Hero and Glee. Anyway.

I don't wanna say that this is the dumbest show I've ever seen, but it is the most gross attempt of 'I am the most unique girl in the world and fuck them all because they don't understand me and I'm just so much better than everybody and I'm so witty and sarcastic.' It's almost as if some mtv producer discovered the internet, and saw this recurring theme of kids being isolated because of their uniqueness and sporks and llamas and so on and so forth and was like- OMG THIS IS IT.

My friend was so disgusted by the amount of manipulating they put these kids through (though willingly due to the potential fame?) that she never wants to work for mtv again. I'm actually intrigued by how they're made to say certain things and just how much of it is just comments they make that are just taken out of context; it's definitely semi-planned/scripted.

I don't actually know why this bothers me so much, haha. I think it's because I care nothing for the title character at all. Actually, I don't like her at all. Funny part is that I'm almost positive it's the only thing 'real' about this show. She is so fucking pretentious, so unapologetic about painting herself as a 'victim' and so self centered- she believes so much that she's the most unique person in her high school that I'm not even sure that years from now when she looks back she'll ever achieve the self awareness that will enable her to get over herself. 'Oh no, I drive an SUV to school, live in a huge house and am so out of place in my highschool in the sea of blond cheerleaders with my plaid shirt, red lipstick and- oh wait, you mean I'm a hipster and I'm not the only one in the world? Whatever, I'm such a dork with my cool thrift store clothes and nobody understands me and I'm gonna hate on people before they can hate on me because I'm so much cooler than everybody else.' Seriously, high school sucks for everybody, what makes you think it sucks more for you?

It's kinda like that episode of 30 Rock where Liz thinks she was the loser who got picked on all the time but she was actually the bully- hilarious.

This show: not so much.

More importantly: why the hell was I watching mtv? Oh right, I'm drunk and trying to drink water now so I won't wake up with a hangover and it's only 1 am.