The Hills – The Complete Third Season (MTV/Paramount DVD)
Picture:
C+ Sound: C+ Extras: C- Episodes: C
What is
wrong with us? This is all our
fault. If we stop watching it, they will
stop making more! In previous reviews
such as Rock of Love with Bret Michaels
and A Shot at Love with Tila Tequila, even this reviewer has admitted to falling victim to the guilty
pleasures of reality television, but MTV’s The Hills takes ‘reality TV’
to a whole new level of bad. No longer
do we know what is real or fake, besides realizing that reality television is
far from reality.
The series is horrible, but that does not mean that
it is not addicting. This reviewer
personally thinks the whole cast and story setup are garbage, but it is obvious
how many people (especially girls) can get swept into the Hollywood gossip
infused stories that the series lays out on the table. People since words were spoken have found
themselves caught-up in and enticed by knowing the secrets of others; Soap
Operas have proved that time and time again.
No matter how dumb, trashy, or utterly preposterous Soap Operas were and
are the general public can’t get enough.
The Hills is exactly that, nothing more than a trashy Soap Opera;
albeit for the new generation of party hopers.
The ‘reality series’ basically follows the lives of
Lauren Conrad, Heidi Montag, Whitney Port, Audrina Partridge, and Heidi’s
boyfriend Spencer Pratt as they go about their self indulgent existences. The series is actually a spin-off of an
earlier MTV series Laguna Beach that followed some of the same ‘cast
members’ in their ‘oh, so fragile’ and spoiled teen years. The Hills on the whole gives the ups
and downs (no matter how fabricated) of the lives of the people listed above,
plus a few other fame clambering hopefuls.
Lauren and Heidi used to be friends…now their not. Heidi and Spencer were supposed to get
married…now their not. Lauren was going
to go to Paris, but then she didn’t; now she is, but she is….OH WHO CARES!
The series is built on lies. It is not even like the other series that
give us the courtesy up front that the 50 people fighting for a lump cash sum
or someone’s love or a ham sandwich or whatever, are in reality nuts, acting,
or both; The Hills is a total fabricated mess. There are now countless instances that attest
to the fact the series is anything but reality.
Whether it be to poor editing, an inside man, or the actors themselves
slipping up and saying something they shouldn’t have; it is more than obvious
that the series holds more vomit than water.
Yet somehow people believe it is real and it has even gotten to the
point that the cast themselves think their TV lives are real!
Now this reviewer understands that the dinners and
clubbing and fights and so on, probably do occur; but only after MTV has
artificially put the wheels in motion. MTV
helped these youngsters sell their souls for fame and now they have no idea
where reality and fiction start and stop.
If you are watching the series for its overflowing essence of gossip or
for a good laugh, go right ahead; but don’t be tricked into investing any real
emotion into these peoples’ lives.
The
Hills has its ups and downs as far as technical features go. The picture is once again presented in a
lackluster 1.33 X 1 full screen that it is not as soft as last season, but does
need some work nevertheless. This
reviewer is thinking that the producers wish to give the series that bright
California/reality feel, but it does not always work out for the best. Think sun bleached plastic and that may sum
up The Hills picture as well as cast well.
The sound in its Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo is hit or miss, as the series
tries to make it seem more realistic with its at times distant, muffled, or
soft quality that can be more annoying than anything else. The extras are boring only offering the huge
fan base some deleted scenes, interviews, commentaries, Fashion: The Life (presented by Pepsi Style), and a Virtual Hills game type thing (wasn’t
one set of annoying nobodies enough?).
Overall, the extras are drab at best and hard to get through once, let
alone many times.
I am like soooo over this…
- Michael P.
Dougherty II
For more disdainful remarks on The Hills:
http://www.fulvuedrive-in.com/review/5709/The+Hills
