Watch. This. Show.
07/21/2010 in PSAs, We can BLOG!, What we're Watching by Lindsay | 2 comments
(You’ve been officially commanded.)
After I went on another tour of Oakland Cemetery + had dinner @ Tin Lizzy’s Grant Park last night…
…I came home and flipped on MTV to watch the premiere of Teen Mom (don’t judge), and ended up crying-like-a-BABY watching MTV’s newest show which also premiered yesterday evening, If You Really Knew Me. Seriously, tears streaming into my wine glass. Everyone really, REALLY needs to watch this show.
Here’s the Q+DD on If You Really Knew Me: MTV’s If You Really New Me is a show centered around Challenge Day, a revealing high school program in which trained Challenge Day staff visits schools and tries to demolish social boundaries, emotional walls, and inevitable cliques so that high school students ultimately feel less alone and more understood. The show, which has replaced The Hills in the 11:00 p.m. EST time slot, tackles serious issues like race, sex, and identity in front of not only peers, but also a national television audience.
Challenge Day was founded by high school teacher, wrestling coach, family therapist and drug intervention specialist, Rich Dutra, and his wife, Yvonne, who has special training in working with at-risk youth. According to their official site, “The Challenge Day mission is to provide youth and their communities with experiential programs that demonstrate the possibility of love and connection through the celebration of diversity, truth and full expression.”
Challenge Day’s MTV website: http://www.challengeday.org/mtv/
If You Really Knew Me trailer: http://tiny.cc/sdq02
What’s being said about the show: http://tiny.cc/8yg8w
To me, it was kind of like a one hour reality version of The Breakfast Club.
I just read online that MTV has committed to 12 episodes of the show, and I strongly encourage everyone to check it out. Knowing MTV, it will be looped 45+ times throughout the next week – so it shouldn’t be difficult at all to catch again. Set your TiVos + grab a box of tissues, b/c I am pretty sure that this show is going to change your life.
xx, L
Big, Huge P.S.: Happy 500th post to us…
…and THANKS SO MUCH to all of our readers!
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CK on 07/23/2010 at 4:08 PM
actually, it’s not a bad idea, but i just always associate MTV with bad tv…
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