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Andy Dehnart
@andydehnart.com
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Writer, TV critic, creator of realityblurred.com, TCA president, writing coach, husband, cat dad, improviser, runner, lover of em dashes and roller coasters. More at andydehnart.com! 🏳️‍🌈 He/him
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Happy #Caturday from this weirdo, who's never left one of my water glasses untouched.
A cat's head in a glass, with its pink tongue extending into water at the bottom of the glass
November 8, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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Meet reality blurred's new mascot! It was inspired by a tagline I've used throughout the years: "Babysitting TV's most unruly child." @lexroman.com designed it, and I hope you love it as much as I do!
A purple baby wearing a retro TV on its head, pointing at the screen, which has a purple flame logo and the words "reality blurred"
November 5, 2025 at 2:54 PM
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Another day, another beautifully crafted sentence!
Over on MTV-which is so dried out and dusty it makes a mummy's colon seem like a wet burrito-only a few shows remain, like The Challenge and RuPaul's Drag Race. realityblurred.com
November 3, 2025 at 8:42 PM
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Trading Spaces premiered 25 years ago this past week! What's your favorite designer disaster? (This Hildi special is at the top of the list for me. Sand on the floor!!)
A room painted with vertical red and yellow stripes, with sand covering the floor
October 19, 2025 at 10:47 PM
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Happy #NoKings Day! Time to let someone know, again, that this ain't The Apprentice boardroom, it's America.
NO KINGS POWER BELONGS TO THE PEOPLE JOIN THE MOVEMENT SATURDAY, OCT 18 NOKINGS.ORG
October 18, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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Apple TV+'s "vibrant new identity" as Apple TV, not to be confused with Apple TV, is going well:
Screenshot of search results, with "Apple TV" in the search box next to a duck logo, and results that say: Apple TV Apple TV+ https://www.apple.com New Apple Originals streaming every month. Watch now the Apple App Store and Google Play. Now available on A Watch offline • Up to six family members • Dolby Atmos so Types: Apple TV, Mac, iPhone, iPad Slow Horses Season 5 • The Morning Show Season 4 Apple https://www.apple.com >tv Apple TV Introducing Apple TV with Siri Remote with Touch surface experience. Apple TV https://tv.apple.com Apple TV+ Browse all movies, TV shows, and more from Apple TV+. Apple TV app across your devices.
October 14, 2025 at 12:12 PM
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I'm very excited to announce that I'm definitely not being scammed by this Major Award, which is definitely not pay-to-play—because, like all legitimate awards, it reminds me, a real nominee, that it's definitely free! Also, the nomination form asks me for a "Suggested Award Title"! Ideas welcome!
I'm excited to inform you that you have been nominated for the CEO of the Year Awards Southeast USA 2025, hosted by Excellence Awards - as part of Dr. Yasemin Yazan LLC. These awards celebrate exceptional CEOS who inspire growth, empower leaders, and drive transformative personal and professional development. At this point, we simply need to know if you'd like to move forward with your nomination. To accept, please complete the following form: https://excellenceawards.global/accept-nomination If you wish to decline your nomination, please unsubscribe using the link at the end of this email. Participation in the CEO of the Year Awards Southeast USA 2025 comes with no mandatory costs. Winning this award is a great way to showcase your expertise and gain industry recognition. Winners can choose from a variety of promotional packages, including a complimentary option, to highlight this accomplishment.
October 8, 2025 at 7:34 PM
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Don't miss Marshal's #DWTS recaps, like this from last week's episode: www.realityblurred.com/realitytv/20...
DWTS Alec Baldwin looks miserable. His devastation grows when he looks to his right and realizes he has seven young children that he has to raise. Hilaria already has to deal with that Crisco bucket of bitterness when she gets home, but on the plus side, the entire viewing audience hates her, too. —Marshal Knight, recapping DWTS 34 on realityblurred.com
October 7, 2025 at 8:26 PM
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I'm kicking around ideas for a new campaign to help explain what makes reality blurred different. Here's one idea—but I'm not sure how to finish the sentence!

How would you finish the tagline at the bottom? Wit and humor welcome!
SURVIVOR AMAZING BELOW DECK DWTS BAKE-OFF reality blurred recaps for people who __________
October 5, 2025 at 12:45 AM
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The kind of thoughtful analysis you're missing if you're not reading my #Survivor recaps!
Survivor: Part two of the disadvantage was not that Jeff Probst's coconuts would nit players in the tace repeatedly as they ran ano bounced around; that was a surprise. "Compound disadvantage," Probst said, adding that every person on the disadvantaged tribe would also be given a compound fracture. realityblurred.com/survivor
October 3, 2025 at 1:24 AM
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Check out TCA's latest video, featuring the editing talents of @palermo.bsky.social highlighting TCA Award winners highlighting, well, us! 🤩 tiktok.pxf.io/c/6552362/23...
Elmo in a tux saying "You really like Elmo!" with a lower-third saying "Elmo: Sesame Street, 2025 TCA Award Winner"
September 28, 2025 at 1:12 AM
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In @janefriedman.com’s great newsletter Electric Speed, I just was introduced to my new favorite website: “King DerpCats most wondrous meme gen'rat'r”: michael-klein.github.io/medieval-cat...
A blue cat holding a pen and paper with the text WRITING THY REALITY TV CRITICISMS
September 27, 2025 at 5:37 PM
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Just got my flu and COVID vaccines—at CVS! In Florida!! Super-easy; I checked a box saying I wanted it and was eligible, and done! 💉💉
a close-up of two bandages on an upper arm; one is green with a white heart, the other white with a red heart
September 25, 2025 at 11:53 PM
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Where do I collect my Pulitzer for cultural criticism? #BakeOff
[reality blurred logo] While his donuts were proving, lain said, "Let's have a wee," and opened the proving drawer, and I was like aack don't do that, the bread shouldn't get wet—but he actually said "a week look" and I left that out to make another potty joke. You're welcome.
September 22, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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Don't miss @moryan.bsky.social on what happened to Alan Sepinwall and Karen Attiah this week, but what's happening to our sources of information and analysis: www.moryan.com/on-the-firin...
All of these things I've mentioned are not the same, but they are all connected. Every day, the worst folks get louder megaphones and bigger platforms and paychecks, and the best and bravest people have their platforms taken away. Out of stupidity or a desire to speed-run us even faster into autocracy. Out of greed or fear or both. At best, they are treated like trash and discarded. At worst, they are targeted and excoriated and removed - sometimes by mobs baying for their heads, sometimes by their own employers. Every. Day. There are fewer and fewer journalists paid to tell the truth, dig up unfortunate but relevant facts and state those facts plainly. Getting paid to write stories, opinions and critiques of all kinds is becoming more rare than it should be (unless those pieces buff the egos of generally wretched people. Private equity, stupid rich people and other destructive entities have decimated the news media. For those who remain, it's scary.
September 16, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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Happy 40th birthday, The Golden Girls! Thank you for being our TV friends, a loving, supportive found family that still lives on in my living room to this day!
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September 14, 2025 at 12:01 PM
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What Project Runway challenge was Heidi Klum introducing here in this Little House on the Prairie dress?

Wrong answers only.
A woman in a floor-length brown dress with multiple lines of ruffles
September 13, 2025 at 3:11 PM
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How does Carrot know so much about me?
A weather app screenshot showing a sun and green landscape and 76 degrees, with a headline that says, “It’s a sunny day! Too bad you’re still a pasty, vitamin-D deficient goblin.”
September 10, 2025 at 12:44 PM
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Doctor I trust more than RFK Jr.
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September 9, 2025 at 1:13 AM
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September 7, 2025 at 3:53 PM
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Fit for TV: The Reality of The Biggest Loser is still in Netflix's top 10 TV shows. While the NBC show was full of shit about health and weight loss—so, too, is the documentary. Here's why: https://www.realityb...
Diets are often successful in the short term and fail long term, and that's when companies and our culture blame individuals-so they'll spend more money to rid themselves of their shame that those companies and our culture create. The Biggest Loser did that, too, perpetuating the myth that all people need is willpower. If you just get on that treadmill for six or seven hours, and eat a fraction of what your body needs, you, too, can win $250,000 and be cheered on by millions!
August 30, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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Ah, journalism: quote an expert, then undermine that expert with an anonymous uninformed commenter. 🤦‍♂️
"The aircraft was at FL 370 (37,000 feet) and only light turbulence was reported in that area," McCormick told the outlet in a written statement. "At that altitude, the aircraft would be above the significant weather with the worst activity to the north of the flight path." Despite experts' reassurance, social media users shared their concerns in the comment section of FlightRadar24's post. One commenter called the route "irresponsible," while another noted how airline travel is "just scary" these days. Meanwhile others took a more comedic approach.
August 29, 2025 at 8:41 PM
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Love the reality blurred logo as much as I do? Wear it! More than 25 colors in seven styles, and now t-shirts are on sale for $12.50 🎉 https://realityblurr...
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August 29, 2025 at 5:58 PM
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Is there any way to read this other than as confirmation CBS dropped its mandate that half of reality TV casts be people of color?
DEADLINE: Are the mandates still in place in which at least 50 percent of the cast should be persons of color, something CBS topper George Cheeks instituted in 2021? TANNENBAUM: Well, from my perspective, nothing's changed. I've always, in the back of my mind, felt we needed more diversity on these shows. It became a mandate for season 41. It's really beautiful to see the amount of people who apply in our database when they see someone that looks like them on television. So fast forward to now, seasons 51 and 52, which we're currently casting. The pool of people is insane. I'm still shooting for having a really diverse cast because I think everybody needs to be represented.
August 25, 2025 at 2:56 PM
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I love my shady weather app 😂
A forecast (87 degrees, feels 98, Thunderstorms) with the words “It’s raining. Watch out for all the Cybertrucks that have broken down on highways” over an image of a rainy rolling hills with a robot flying a kite
August 24, 2025 at 7:56 PM