Goodbye "The Hills"!

Tonight was the series finale of a TV show I have been watching for several years. This show is "The Hills" on MTV! "The Hills" is a sort of reality show that is sort of scripted that follows a group of really attractive people in their early 20's and their lives in L.A. It is a spin-off of an earlier show, Laguna Beach, which ended in 2006. Laguna Beach featured a group of rich teenagers who always had some sort of "drama" to discuss for the camera. (Imagine "drama" being said in a drawn out, valley girl/boy voice!) Most of the characters were so dumb that they could barely have a coherent conversation. The more interesting characters, mainly Lauren Conrad, continued their stories on "The Hills" after Laguna ended.

Ahhh, there is the Laguna cast from the 1st season. New characters were added each season.

"The Hills" featured some new characters in addition to Lauren. They all had too good to be true jobs at fashion magazines and recording studios even though none of them had college degrees at the time. (I think Whitney might have one, but I'm not sure about the others). The girl on the right, Heidi, was originally Lauren's roommate. She became one of the show's biggest drama queens.


This show has had 6 seasons. Everyone, even fans like myself, is able to acknowledge how pointless and stupid the show is. Who cares, though! The new episode of each week is shown at 9 pm, the perfect time of day to sit and let your brain relax. It was such a relief after a day of law school drudgery or studying for the bar or a hot day of lifeguarding in the hot sun to take 1/2 hour to watch this crap. The main plot of the show over the last several seasons has revolved around Heidi and Lauren's falling out after Heidi started dating Spencer, a huge d-bag that everyone hates and that hates everyone. Supposedly, Spencer spread a rumor that Lauren made a risque tape with her ex Jason (some huge moron that was also on Laguna Beach. Lauren gave up a summer working for Teen Vogue Magazine in Paris because she wanted to hang out with him. SICK!). Eventually, Lauren got tired of all the drama and left the show in order to pursue her own interests. (These interests include a cheap clothing line that you can buy at Kohls.)

After that, the show went downhill in my opinion. MTV tried to salvage it by bringing Kristen, a drama queen from Laguna Beach, back into the mix. Kristen is really attractive and is always wearing amazing eyeliner. After Laguna, she thought she was going to be a famous movie star but she sucks at acting so that didn't work out and she had to go back to MTV.



That's Kristen. That picture might be a few years old, but it doesn't really matter. Her hair is pretty amazing. So many people try to get that perfect blonde and it never works! If I had straight hair I would love to try that hairstyle.

Heidi, the roommate, married her awful boyfriend during the show and they are on the quest for fame. She tried to be a pop singer and her song and music video were laughable. She recently had 10 plastic surgery procedures and looks like a scary mannequin or something. It is really terrifying.


This is Heidi in 2006 when the show started. She is a fool, but she was definitely beautiful.

This is her now, shown in a still from the show. She is 23 and looks like she belongs on the "Real Housewives" series as a 38 year old who wants to look 23. She had liposuction, work on her whole face, and now has DDD's. Seriously. Gross. Her lips are full of fillers and she had her body reshaped. She had her back contoured and a$$ cheek implants! It's pretty sad, actually. During the season, she looked like she was healed but she could only talk very softly because her jaw had been reshaped. Everyone thinks Spencer brainwashed her and is keeping her isolated from the world. I don't know how much of it is an act, but during this season he started wearing a bunch of new age crystals as jewelry and both he and Heidi talked about a bunch of crazy new age nonsense. They left the show early before the season ended. Ahhh, they are the characters everyone loves to hate! Just writing that paragraph made me realize how bizarre the show was getting.

Goodbye, The Hills, and good luck cast members. I can't imagine what else lies in your future, besides cheap clothing lines and possible spin offs. Lauren wrote a fictional novel, but I don't really believe she wrote it because in an interview she said "Well, I wasn't really familiar with the whole process, so I told the publisher the story I wanted to tell. . ." Which sounds to me like she didn't write it. But, whatev. . .she is still my favorite character and probably one of the few with a future. Hopefully they will all be OK, since the main characters made between $50,000 and $100,000 per episode! Ughhh. . .seriously?