i finally watched man shops globe on the sundance channel yesterday. the highly anticipated man shops globe. i might take a lot of heat for this but i thought this show was a complete snooze fest. i mean there is no question this man has the most awesome job on the whole fucking planet. travel all over the world and pick out pretty stuff to sell at anthropologie. hello dream job. and the idea of a tv show presenting him travelling all over the world buying said pretty seems like a dream tv show for me..us...right? and when i started watching it i was very excited...(i missed the first episode so for all i know it could have been awesome) my heart started to race a bit and little beads of sweat started to appear on my forehead like the time i put too much russian dressing on my salad in 7th grade. what is it about russian dressing?? anyway...there was keith in south africa hunting down "that amazing find that's gonna blow me away". he found some beaded animals, pretty pottery, a few chairs blah blah blah...but not that great big amazeballs thing. then he goes into a shop where two guys make cool shit out of recycled garbage. he wasn't very impressed with most of it (I WAS!!!) until he saw a massive chandelier big enough for mmmm...say.....the white house? it was pretty amazing. and that is pretty much it. apart from a pleasantly scored background and looking at what to me might be the most beautiful place on earth, south africa, the whole show was pretty anti-climactic. and we don't need to see every meeting over breakfast in your snazzy hotel with your south african rep. i think we would have rather seen the rooms in the hotel thank you very much. and is it just me or is there always a smug look on his face? or is it a pa..pa...pa...pa..poker face? i can't tell. maybe it's just a gay face.
OHHH...don't get me wrong!!! i will continue to watch this show in the hopes it gets better and even if it doesn't i will still get some enjoyment out of it. but right now it plays like a segment (a long one) on 60 minutes. perhaps we will see interviews from the depths of this keith johnson home...
i am hopeful...