Celebrity rehab with Dr. Drew.
Back in the day, the cable music channel VH1 was considered the lot less cool cousin of MTV, it's programming seemed to be targeting an older than MTV crowd and included many snooze fest shows: storytellers, boring scripted "special event" concerts and the lamest cable music channel awards show... ever. Holy crap have the times changed, now VH1 has grown into a virtual cable network sideshow, with a selection of reality shows that constantly push the envelope of "Wiskey Tango Foxtrot?" Do you enjoy watching spoiled rich amoral freaks air out all of their filthy laundry in half an hour to hour long spurts? Do you hunger to see C and D list celebrities come to the realization that they have nowhere to go but down? Do you giggle when you witness the marginally famous fret about their tenuous fame? If you haven't answered yes to any of these questions then you need to feast your eyes on Celebrity Rehab with Dr. Drew, an ironically addictive reality show featuring a gang of nearly washed-up celebs from every walk of life. In the show we get to be the fly on the wall as a Baldwin brother, ex wrestler Chyna, a porn star, an American Idol finalist, Sylvester Stallone's ex wife and other "famous" specimens struggle with drugs. alcohol and the hilarious horror that is their daily dysfunctional lives. Now I don't really care for reality TV as a genre at all, but this show is freakin delicious! You won't believe the things these self-centered brats bitch about...apparently money DOES NOT buy happiness. At the center of this tempest is the Buddha-like Dr. Drew, who seems to genuinely care about these mutants and is always at the ready with encouraging words and support and quite honestly a lot of mother-funkin patience. Roll with the show for a week or two and witness as this motley crew deals with the drama of having to function without cell phones, not having people wait on them hand and foot (sort of) and managing their regret for putting it all on the boobtube for all of us to enjoy. This show is both a high and low note for reality TV as a whole and is ridiculously enjoyable in a guilty pleasure sort of way. Tune into VH1 Thursday nights at various times later in the evening for new episodes and get hooked...and for God's sake don't tell anyone you like this!
This "television show" receives four and a half "empty prescription bottles" out of a possible five.