Andy Dehnart

Andy Dehnart

@andydehnart.com

Writer, TV critic, creator of realityblurred.com, TCA president, writing coach, husband, cat dad, improviser, runner, lover of em dashes and roller coasters. More at andydehnart.com! 🏳️‍🌈 He/him

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Between Parker Posey and The Traitors producers', #TheMob feels like a show that should be my thing. But what a clunky and slow—verging on boring—start. And a waste of Parker Posey!

ICYMI: "The fruit shall set you free!" Victor declared during The Traitors: New Blood episode 7. But NBC won't free us from its bonkers schedule so we have to wait a week to see the pardon play out. #TheTraitors #NewBlood

realityblurred.comPardon me, Traitors New Blood? Waiting a week to resolve this mess?"The fruit shall set you free!" Victor declared during The Traitors: New Blood episode 7. But NBC won't free us from its bonkers schedule so we have to wait a week to see the pardon play out.

The Traitors US's first civilian season has so much going for it—yet it's making one fatal error, I think. And one error you could make is not subscribing to my podcast to hear me in all my muppet-voiced glory take you behind the scenes of reality TV.

"The fruit shall set you free!" Victor declared during The Traitors: New Blood episode 7. But NBC won't free us from its bonkers schedule so we have to wait a week to see the pardon play out. #TraitorsNewBlood #RealityTV

realityblurred.comPardon me, Traitors New Blood? Waiting a week to resolve this mess?"The fruit shall set you free!" Victor declared during The Traitors: New Blood episode 7. But NBC won't free us from its bonkers schedule so we have to wait a week to see the pardon play out.

ICYMI: The New Stanford Prison Experiment wants us to take it seriously, but if AI reanimated Gene Wilder started talking to the cast over the jail's loudspeakers about Everlasting Gobstoppers, it'd be less silly than this show's concept and execution. #Netflix #StanfordPrisonExperiment

realityblurred.comNetflix’s New Stanford Prison Experiment: more full of shit than the toilet that won’t flushThe New Stanford Prison Experiment wants us to take it seriously, but if AI reanimated Gene Wilder started talking to the cast over the jail's loudspeakers about Everlasting Gobstoppers, it'd be less silly than this show's concept and execution.

I don’t expect people who dislike The Real Housewives franchise to watch the E! version, The Golden Life, which puts people Bravo dumped on a network NBCUniversal dumped. But! Golden Life’s absolutely inept technical work—wretched lighting, horrible sound, stilted editing—is useful to see.

At the very least, it demonstrates a level of care and craft from those who work behind the scenes on The Real Housewives franchise, who make it look easy, but clearly it is not!

ICYMI: It's Dancing with the Stars 35's Dedication Week, and for Marshal Knight, that means "we all have to buck up and allow these performances to be used as a therapeutic outlet for the celebrities." But there were some standouts! #DancingWithTheStars #DWTS

realityblurred.comNewbies in, one pro out: DWTS Dedication Week’s tears and dramaIt's Dancing with the Stars 35's Dedication Week, and for Marshal Knight, that means "we all have to buck up and allow these performances to be used as a therapeutic outlet for the celebrities." But there were some standouts!

ICYMI: NBC's The Traitors: New Blood has been a baffling mess, and I think there's one thing to blame more than anything else: episodes that are much shorter than the ones on Peacock. Yep, I'm blaming the editing! #TheTraitors #NewBlood

realityblurred.comTraitors: New Blood’s biggest problemNBC's The Traitors: New Blood has been a baffling mess, and I think there's one thing to blame more than anything else: episodes that are much shorter than the ones on Peacock. Yep, I'm blaming the editing!

#Survivor51 is anyone in production or at CBS watching how three tribes just killed this season dead in its tracks? And now we're going to have a tribe of three?!

#Survivor51 Is Brady just using "brody" to fill in the blank for words he doesn't know? Because now he's using it in nonsense ways: "it's just so unpredictable brody." What? Are we brody? The producers? I don't get it brody.

I reviewed Netflix's The New Stanford Prison Experiment, though I gave up after the second episode. That's when producers started meddling, giving the cast members playing guards challenges, like putting on riot gear and handcuffing all the cast members playing inmates.

The New Stanford Prison Experiment wants us to take it seriously, but if AI reanimated Gene Wilder started talking to the cast over the jail's loudspeakers about Everlasting Gobstoppers, it'd be less silly than this show's concept and execution. #Netflix #StanfordPrisonExperiment

realityblurred.comNetflix’s New Stanford Prison Experiment: more full of shit than the toilet that won’t flushThe New Stanford Prison Experiment wants us to take it seriously, but if AI reanimated Gene Wilder started talking to the cast over the jail's loudspeakers about Everlasting Gobstoppers, it'd be less silly than this show's concept and execution.

It's Dancing with the Stars 35's Dedication Week, and for Marshal Knight, that means "we all have to buck up and allow these performances to be used as a therapeutic outlet for the celebrities." But there were some standouts! #DancingWithTheStars #DWTS

realityblurred.comNewbies in, one pro out: DWTS Dedication Week’s tears and dramaIt's Dancing with the Stars 35's Dedication Week, and for Marshal Knight, that means "we all have to buck up and allow these performances to be used as a therapeutic outlet for the celebrities." But there were some standouts!

My takeaway from these The Golden Life premiere interstitial is that E! hates its cast. The bad lighting, the placement of the cue cards/prompters, the awkward interaction, that dentist's office set. Look for my review of the show—and RHONY—tomorrow!

By the way, the producers are those formerly known as Magical Elves, Dan Cutforth and Jane Lipsitz, who gave us Top Chef, Project Runway, and the new disaster that is Project Runway.

NBC's The Traitors: New Blood has been a baffling mess, and I think there's one thing to blame more than anything else: episodes that are much shorter than the ones on Peacock. Yep, I'm blaming the editing! #TheTraitors #NewBlood

realityblurred.comTraitors: New Blood’s biggest problemNBC's The Traitors: New Blood has been a baffling mess, and I think there's one thing to blame more than anything else: episodes that are much shorter than the ones on Peacock. Yep, I'm blaming the editing!