Ah, Miami Social: Where former Big Brother and Apprentice contestants pretend to run in the same social circle in order to re-animate their 15 minutes. Oh, Hardy - WHY?? And seriously, these types of fake "slice of life" shows are reaching a fever pitch, aren't they? Who do we have more to blame - The Hills or the Real Housewives franchise?

I don't watch Big Brother or Apprentice but I will watch this ..............at least once.

Totally remember Katrina from Apprentice. I liked her. I will be watching. Hey, my already low standards get even lower in the summer.

Thank you! I could not place Katrina! The Apprentice, duh!
Hardy took me a day or two to figure out also. I think that was the last Big Brother Season I watched.

Eh, I'll give it a try, I am Bravo's Bitch with all things 'reality'.

And this is me, essentially. I mean, I'm watching NYC Prep, people.

Katrina's the only reason I even paid attention to the commercial I saw for this show, and then the fond memories of Troy McClain totally pwning her during the real estate challenge came flooding back and made me feel all warm and happy. :)

Fashionista


Me too, how sad can it get? lol
I'm hoping that at this show will at least be more grown up entertainment. I mean how much can I snark on 15 year olds?

I knew I wasn't seeing things when I thought that was Hardy in that commercial.

I'm most curious about the bisexual European(?) mom who has a daughter in prep school, and the relationship between the one guy and his crazy girlfriend.

I am kind of curious to see whether Hardy is as big a douche bag as he was eight years ago.

Oh my lord, I can't believe it's been that long! Time flies when you watch crappy tv.

biakbiak, I had the exact same feeling when I wrote the post! I did the numbers in my head and was shocked when I realized how long it had been since BB2.

Funny after seeing the Miami Social commercial I came here to write I wonder if Hardy is still a douche bag

It's been bugging me to no end who that guy was and it was Hardy! I'm sure he's still a douchebag.

I want to see who in the world wants to party with him - Seriously.

What a bunch of vapid assholes. That was an hour I will never get back.

George likes drama. He's a big old drama queen who goes looking for conflict. Own it, George, and STFU. Lina has a bad case of crazy eyes.

I don't watch the Apprentice or Big Brother, so those who have will have to fill me in on the douchiness of the cast members.

I was shocked to see Michael on TV with a smoke. I thought that smoking was now a capital offense in most states.

I'm Bravo's bitch, too. It is my secret shame.

Have you bugged my house, Terjen? Because I said the exact same thing to my hubby!

As much of a Bravo bitch as I am, I couldn't take more than ten minutes of this show. Same with that Prep thing. Hate them both.

Wow. That was actually really boring. I expected a little more wit, a little more decadence, a little more flare. This is the most ridiculous bunch to grace Bravotv yet. Self-absorbed comes with the territory but this group is really grasping at straws to be interesting. They have failed. Miserably. What's up with the blonde who felt the need to stand in her bra and panties as long as possible, so the camera can linger? Um, honey, your body is a dime a dozen in Miami. I can appreciate nice abs but it was all really forced. Hardy thinks he's really funny. Ariel is not attractive. George-of-the-eternal-blink is such a knob. Ben is the best looking of the lot and hopefully, for his sake, he will not be featured often. Trixia? Seriously?
If I want to watch good times and good laughs in Miami, I'll stick to The Golden Girls.

These people need sunscreen stat. Holy skin damage!

I thought this would be interesting in a trainwreck way, but this show is just not good. Every scene was shot like The Hills.

Why did I just watch this? Will someone please slap me in the face right now?

Apparently women's eyebrows are unfashionable in Miami.

Note to self - keep out of the sun, because Miami women look rough. Trixia looks like she's pushing mid-40s.

The camera work as Hardy was getting ready was 80s MTV video cheese at its finest.

It took me a couple of minutes to realize that I 'knew' Hardy from Big Brother, and not from real life. I called my old roommate to ask whether the guy on TV had ever dated anyone in our house. Then we watched the rest of the show. The scenery reminded me why I lived in Miami for so long, and the people reminded me why I left.
Unless Sorah's boyfriend Gonzo turns out to be a huge tool she's clearly still stuck on keeping George within reach, and no more Gonzo. What anyone sees in George I haven't a clue. The training thing on the beach? They sounded like they were 12 with all the attempts at double entendres. The only worthwhile thing was the model casting, but we didn't see enough of anyone. Prbably the show wasn't willing to fork over the cash for actual screentime. Sadly, I'll probably watch next week.

Haha . . . yeah, count me in. This is what I'm reduced to when there's nothing else on. I agree with the Jezebel review that referred to these people as "barely human".

Got that right, Cream Cheese. How anyone can make life in Miami Beach boring, I don't know. I would have been much happier to watch the guy who cruises up and down Ocean Dr in head-to-toe fishnet for an hour.

If you used the phrase "boring twats" to describe the cast too, I think I may have.

I am not sure if I am going to be able to watch this again. It was pretty awful, and there is no promise of someone flipping a table at the end to make it worth my while to stay.

Thanks people! It wasn't just me, I am not an old fuddy duddy, it just sucked.

Congrats NYC Prep, you are officially no longer the most boring crowd desperate to have people wish they were you. In fact, I'd say that in the maturity category, or rather immaturity factor, its a drawn. Which says a lot since considering that I suspect most, no matter the age they claim could be your parents. I'm not sure we're not looking at your nanas and pop-pops considering the amount of work, botox and still furrows in the forehead an Iowan farmer would be proud of.

So now we know what happens when losers from Big Brother and The Apprentice collide.

While there is nothing wrong with being a maitre'd, it's also pretty sad, no matter how glitzy the club to watch Hardy squeeze into a five year Hugo Boss he picked up in a consignment store (or a hotel's lost and found) and pretend his job is not still within the analogous bounds of handing out flashing "your table is ready" pagers at Joe's Crab Shack.

Basically this is The Hills meets Real Housewives. Problem is they are all Danielle without even the rapsheet or crazy. A bunch of people all deciding to indulge in mid-life criseses even as they pretend to be decades away from such. George is dating a "hottie". And apparently his maturity threshold means he still hides his Maxim subscription behind the pile of dirty clothes in his closet.



You mean you weren't immediately impressed but yet seething with envy that wasn't you? Or your fabulous sexy life? Or that you weren't there at their incredibly hot and wonderful summer stock does recreation of a Smirnoff Ice ad party?

I had this on in the background and then forgot it was on, about halfway through I looked up wondering how I somehow ended up on a Valtrex and Entenze double feature infomercial.

And whichever Glamour Shots booth at the Dade County Mall that told these people they were as pretty as they think, or at least want us to think, they are? Should hand out the refund even it was thrity years ago.

My dog squating in the yard is more compelling than watching a bunch of people use cameras in place of otherwise weeping into their Red Bulls and vodka dinners each time they find a gray hair or the botox just gives out for the umpteenth time.

What a loathesome and superficial group. I put this in my DVR, because I thought it might be some cheesy summer fun, but I took it right out of my DVR after forcing myself to sit through this tribute to vapidity. These people are nauseating, although after spending all of my time since college with people who actually make some kind of contribution to society, it's good to remember that there are still people in the world whose number one priority is being pretty.

Thank you. If these losers want to continue being so impressed with their own looks and fab-u-lousness, they better lay off the smokes and lather on the sunscreen fast. Oh wait....it's obviously about ten years too late for that.

It finally dawned on me too by the end of the show that Hardy was from Big Brother. I just seem to always remember him in a wife beater. What was his story when he was on BB? Does anyone remember?

Truer words have never been spoken, Cream Cheese. I'd even suffer through an Empty Nest marathon over this tripe.

I have never seen so much as an episode of Big Brother and I missed the first couple of minutes of the opening of the show so I had no idea who Hardy was. I was trying to figure out what he did for a living. I just thought he was in marketing/advertising. Who knew he was a friggin' maitre d. I couldn't believe that Trixia is in her 30's. Must have been a rough life. What a garbage face. She is not attractive, looks about 45 and those foobs are heinous.

Was I the only one thinking that George's girlfriend is probably just a high class prostitute and he just doesn't know it? She 'works' for real estate developer (doing what actually) that sends her all over the world and this time was supposed to be sending her to NY, but really she was on some French speaking island 'entertaining' clients. I just thought developer = pimp and entertaining speaks for itself. Just me? okay. She had a decent enough body, but again, a bad case of buttaface. Come to think of it, the only decent looking woman was Katrina. The rest all look rode hard and put away wet.

I was finding the accents on many of the women hard to understand. I finally gave up and turned on the closed captioning.

I would have loved to see the chick Ariel was referring to as fat and having tartantula hair. He is such a nasty bitch!

Between that and the smoking- these people looked rough. Seriously - I thought Hardy's girlfriend was already 40. I gasped when one of them said she was 31. I'm 32 and I look like a frickin' baby compared to that one. And I just realized her name is Trixia! Trixia? I wonder if she's looked up that name on Urban Dictionary....

I know the saying goes "At a certain age you have to choose your ass or your face" but damn I wasn't expecting people in their "30s" contemplating that dilemma. Sheesh! There's a whole lot of tanning and "work" going on with this bunch.


Word is bond! I suspect these people were the "not so cool" kids from HS who just got invited to the party that's been going on since forever. I'm getting a "tardy to the party" vibe from all of them. Sorah is the only one who I buy who was part of the Miami scene but is so over it already. Miami is probably loads of fun, but the real "cool kids" don't fixate on being in the so-called "in crowd". That's what the wannabees do!

What a bunch of fake people. And I agree - George's girlfriend is probably an escort or high class hooker.

Glad to see my hate of Katrina came back with a vengeance. It's like the warm embrace of a long lost friend. That said, I have never been so glad that I put off upgrading my Directv to HD as I was watching this show. Everyone, men and women, looked rough. If this is what "beautiful" looks like in Miami, then I'm thrilled not to be "beautiful."

I think the house that Katrina and her husband were in was in the Kathy Griffen D list last night.
The 17 M house she offered 1.7 M for.

I swore up & down that I'd never even PAUSE on the Bravo channel when NYC Prep was on...and I (hanging my head in shame) have to admit that I watched it for about 15 minutes last night. When I heard my husband's footsteps approaching the room, I quickly changed the channel to HGTV!!!

[shakes fist in air] DAMN YOU, BRAVO!!!!

I am ashamed to say that, although I haven't yet broken down & watched Miami Social because I am just completely disgusted by the previews...I'm sure that at some point I'll be sitting, remote in hand, watching the reruns. sigh....

I "watched" this show because it was on after NYC Prep, but I couldn't tell you two things about the episode. HOW BORING.

Just like NYC prep, I can't tell the girls apart. the russian nutcase, girlfriend of the maitre d' and "mother" all look interchangeable. The two brunettes with no eyebrows and acne scars also look almost identical. Are all the boys gay? I'm so confused.

I hate everyone on this show. Is it just me? Maybe not. My Katrina hate came back immediately. She needs to set her makeup gun to day instead of whore. Damn I love makeup & am a makeup artist but homegirl needs to put down the eyeshadow. Like others have said everyone on this show thinks they're the hot shit but really are a bunch of transplants trying to act how they think Miami people are like. Just like all the horrid NYC transplants clogging up everything. That slow mo suit guy is a maitre d' really? He thinks he's the shit come on now. This show was really boring & really badly acted but like everyone else i'm Bravo's bitch & will give it another try.

It's the millennium, and a maitre'd is now called a club promoter and host, I guess. He looks a lot like the actor who played Greg on Dharma & Greg.

Yes, and he can come sit next to me. No, but seriously, I wasn't sure if I could take him seriously or if he was just saying that stuff 'cause he knows it'll get a reaction in some shape, way, or form.

Anyway, I was reading the bios on Bravo just now, and I was struck by how many times it was stated that a particular cast member is always on the VIP list at clubs. Now, I don't know how it works in Miami, but in DC, it's not all that difficult to get on a club's "VIP" list. Why is that seen as some measure of importance? Clubs need people to come in and spend money, so yeah, you'll get in. And if you frequent a club enough, you'll get to know the door guy or the bartenders or the manager. It's not a special talent. With that said, I'll most likely keep watching, or at the very least have it on as background noise, because truthfully, there's nothing on at that time that I would want to watch.

I will watch again to catch a glimpse of Ben/Benjamin. He was hawt!!

Not one of these people is as hot or as important as they think they are particularly the token gay. In what world is being bald, wrinkly, and harboring a pathetic crush on your trainer considered hot???

Unfortunately, I lived in the area for several years and have to say that this is an accurate representation of a certain type of person that lives there - vapid, narcissistic, and overly concerned about looks and prestige.

Oh, I love you!!!



That show-mo sequence was the funniest, corniest, most embarassing 30 seconds of the whole episode.
I could watch that over and over. If Joe McHale doesn't tear that up, I will be so disappointed.
Spandau Ballet + Crockett & Tubbs = Hardy Hill.

Trixia does look early 40's at best. She looks GREAT for 40+ but there is no way, no damn way she is only 31.



You know, I think he is a good looking guy in most any other situation or city but his grating, whiny personality makes him ugly as sin. He is "amping up the gay" (because that's "edgy"), but falling so short of being anything genuine. Right now, he's a catty bitch and carrying the stereotype queer flag around as if what he's serving is something we've never tried.
Been there, honey. Your "gay" is so 2005.

I can watch, pratically on endless repeat, old episodes of Project Runway and Top Chef. I enjoy episodes of RHONY. I can suffer through RHONJ. I will watch RHOA and RHOOC if there is nothing else on. I have been a loyal watcher of The Fashion Show, despite the total lack of fun that PR had. I've even stooped to watch NYC Prep and cringed through the vapidity (is that a word?) of the youngsters. But Miami Social may just be something I can't do - I had 5 minutes to go, was hoping to see a "what happens this season" montage and instead clicked it off and went to work (don't forget, the table-flipping preview was the only funny preview we had to look forward to in RHONJ). That's pretty sad. Nothing of interest. Vain, shallow people who are uninteresting.

What a pack of tools this crew seems to be. I'm all for TV that lets me feel superior, but this was a horrible, awful hour.

From Salon:

Although it's easy to mistake Miami Social for part of the problem, the show actually performs an important service to the public by revealing just how unspeakably dull the life of the club-hopping socialite actually is. Sure, stretching ugly tops over your enormous fake tits and spending way too much money at awful, overpriced night spots might sound like living the dream, but get to know these overly bronzed, gel-haired, empty-eyed souls a little better, and you'll no longer spend your afternoons at work (the way we all do) daydreaming about fishing your bra out of a South Beach trash can at 4 in the morning. Despite its strenuous attempts to glamorize the lives of these young, wealthy, ultra-beautiful denizens of Miami's hottest circles, Miami Social reveals them to be horribly mundane.

I'm sorry; this critique was just too good to leave alone. From Miami Herald:

Two gems from another Miami Herald piece:



Why am I not surprised that frickin Andy Cohen is creaming himself over this show? It's like his personality in a bottle. Too bad the last words to describe the cast would be fun, alive, energetic, hip, and beautiful. And as the salon article points out, we're supposed to believe that real estate and mortgage brokers are rolling in it? In Miami? In 2009?



...(snicker)...heh...It took me like 15 minutes to stop giggling after I read that. At least the Snuggie has a great name and a hilariously awful commercial that will live on in pop culture history. The wearable towel. Nothing screams "height of chic" like a snuggie knock off.

Okay, I live in Los freakin' Angeles and I found these people to be pathetic and overly processed. I was embarrassed for them - at least the NYC Prep kids have the excuse that they are only teenagers. These people are in their 30's (at least) and they think living is pretending their life is a mash-up of Sex & The City and Miami Vice. Lots of drinking, smoking, drugging, late nights, long crispy days in the sun - these people all look cranky and miserable and unhealthy.

The balding gay guy really bugged me - he seemed like the most 'human', like maybe he could be salvaged if we sent him to the Peace Corps or something. I don't understand his hair though - these days, does any man have to go bald? Although if he doesn't want to go the Propecia route, he would look better if he just shaved it totally.

Uh 30s? 40s is what I saw. Not that there's anything wrong with 40, but be honest. Maybe some are in their 30s, but . . .

As long as we're on a Miami Herald roll, here's some more gold:




Hahaha! Sorry Miami folks, we know there are lots of great people there too!

You're exactly right. These are all wannabees and they aren't even good at it.

Oh, and Hardy, you're making even a bigger ass of yourself.

What a bunch of vapid assholes.

To be honest, I cannot recall anything I saw on this show, but that's probably because I lost interest after hearing them claiming how hip and cool they are for the umpteenth time. It reminded me of the "show me" rule; instead of telling me how awesome you are, show me.

Correction: 1990's

Lots of things about this show bug but two stand out:

1) Couldn't they have found any party-hearty twentysomethings to hang out with? Last time I looked, South Beach was crawling with them. Granted, they'd be just as shallow, vacuous, and horrible but they'd look better doing it and provide a better vicarious TV experience than this crew of pre-menopausal, Rogaine-needing, mid-life trainwrecks grasping desperately at la vida loca.

2) Speaking of la vida loca, where are the Spanish speakers? Sorah, I think, is Brazilian (one of the guys, George?, makes a joke about Brazilians always being late when they're waiting for her) so she might speak Portuguese and it's not clear what the ethnicity of the other women is. But none of the guys is Hispanic (not including the various husbands/boyfriends like Ben and Gonzalo) and there are no blacks -- African-American, Jamaican, Haitian or otherwise -- at all, even in the background shots it seems. Isn't Miami-Dade something like 60%+ Hispanic and black? Instead, MS focuses on a bunch of Eurotrash (Ariel) and Eurotrash wannabes. You gotta love Bravo's reality-show apartheid.

This show would redeem itself if, in some future episode, they dropped Ariel off in Liberty City or Overtown without a cell phone and no money and told him to hoof it back to South Beach on his own. We'll see who's calling who a fat girl then. That, I'd watch.