Tag: The Glass House

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Call me the Glass House weatherman!

Because I predicted a large chance of Andrea-win at the beginning of this final episode, but in the end, there wasn’t a cloud in the sky. Hell, as one of the final three, she ended up with the fewest votes, whereas Kevin emerged victorious! Cha-ching!

My mother’s theory for how he pulled out the win? He’s an attractive dude, so he had a majority of the female vote. (She also suggested that females are more likely to watch reality TV than males, but I imagine “Kevin’s a dude” was the more important factor.)

So Kevin took home the grand prize of $250,000; Stephanie came in second with her bribe money of $37,600; Mike gave himself a couple thousand during one of the challenges (he lost the challenge because of it)… Not everyone went home broke, but compared to $250K, a lot of the contestants don’t have much to brag about, especially considering how ABC presented them on TV.

The show is over, so I’m at peace now. Congratulations to Kevin, even though he’s not Steph. Congratulations to everyone else who didn’t get prize money, but still got a lot of national television exposure, even though some of them are jerks. And most importantly, congratulations to all the viewers and voters who survived this train wreck. The Glass House wouldn’t have been the same without you.

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Define “second place” in The Glass House

In the Olympics, it means you get a silver medal because you weren’t quite fast enough or your score wasn’t quite high enough to win the gold medal in your event. In the Glass House, well, “second place” depends on your interpretation.

At the end of the final episode, there will be a single person who wins $250,000. The ultimate victory. The person who could buy him or herself a lot of gold medals because $250K is a lot of money. The runner-up on the final episode… I don’t know whether it’ll depend on audience participation, but the runner-up won’t get as many votes or won’t have as much support or something and the result will be the same as it is for all of the non-winners: they get jack squat.

Except for Steph. She’d been voted team captain two weeks in a row, so when the show offered “bribe money” for someone to give up their place in the house, she knew she’d be likely to take it—no one else knew exactly how popular they were (or were not, in most cases). Thus, when the numbers started climbing higher, the temptation became greater. When the number reached $37,600, Steph decided it was time to go. The likelihood of her winning the $250,000 was microscopic, so it was her best option. As she pointed out as they lowered her down the tube, “That’s more than five of you will be getting.”

So that’s it. Steph has left the Glass House, but she took home $37,600 and will eventually be taking a trip to Vegas as well. Maybe she didn’t last until the final episode, but if you’re talking money, what she got from the show could buy her a lot of silver medals.

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One won in The Glass House

Well, technically, Andrea hasn’t won yet, but the fact that she came out of Limbo instead of Joy pretty much seals it. Fortunately, I don’t feel too bad about that fact anymore. Without giving away any details (I don’t have that many to begin with), Steph left the house voluntarily yesterday. The producers were offering everyone bribe money to leave, so she took it and was replaced by someone who’d been previously eliminated to fill her spot.

She wasn’t very popular with the viewers and thus not very likely to win the $250K. However, she left the house on her own terms, she got the bribe money plus she’d already won a trip to Las Vegas with tickets to see Celine Dion. All things considered, when Steph gets home, I think the only disappointment will be when she sees the show’s Nielsen ratings.

Oh, and here’s an “It’s Over!” blog post from Team Steph, too.

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Everyone vs. One in The Glass House

Yes, I wrote that title correctly. Normally, the concept would be something like “one vs. everyone”, but The Glass House is in an interesting situation. WARNING: This entry contains some spoilers, so if you don’t want to know what the final results of tonight’s episode will be, come back and read this when the show is over. Continue reading “Everyone vs. One in The Glass House”

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You think The Glass House is really that bad?

People all over the Internet are ranting about this show, saying it’s the worst reality TV show that’s ever been produced. I would beg to differ, but I don’t need to beg on this point. They’re wrong and I’ll tell you why.

I’d like to introduce Exhibit A, which was on the air for exactly one episode: “Who’s Your Daddy?” The only reason I know about its existence is because one of the guys working on Beauty and the Geek had just finished working on that show. He thought it was kind of sweet and touching, but that’s what happens when you work behind the scenes. So what ended up on the screen?

I may be off a little on the specifics—it’s only been over seven years since I heard about it—but the premise was that some girl who’d been adopted as a child was put in a mansion with a bunch of older guys. During the course of the show, she had to figure out which of them was her biological father. Seriously. That was the premise.

The reason I think it was on TV for an episode is because I remember coming home from the mansion and learning the title of our show was “Beauty and the Geek” (it was “Working Title” until they put us in seclusion). That play on words plus the fact that “Who’s Your Daddy?” did so poorly… I figured we’d probably get canned after one episode, too. Thankfully, I was wrong, but that’s beside the point.

My point is that The Glass House is not the worst reality TV show that’s ever been produced. Just because it’s the worst you’ve seen doesn’t make it the worst altogether. If you don’t believe me, here’s Exhibit B: a blog entry about a movie called “Wildfire: The Arabian Heart”. Most of you haven’t heard of it before, right? It’s actually the second review that I wrote about it and has links to websites like Blockbuster and IMDB.com, where plenty of other people talk about how it’s the worst movie that’s ever been produced. Go ahead, read through the comments a little and I’ll let you decide whether it sounds better or worse than Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance. And with that, I rest my case.