'Reality' TV continues down fake-street

I’ve done some stupid stuff.

Most involved alcohol or testosterone, and I’d like to think that’s all in my past.

I’m older and wiser now, no longer the guy who says “Hold my beer and watch this,” but instead the guy who holds the beer and watches.

Sadly, most of what I watch now is on television.

And it just seems to keep getting stupider.

Naked and Afraid, apparently, wasn’t dumb enough. An hour a week of two buck naked strangers trying to survive for 21 days in the wilderness was so compelling that the Discovery Channel decided to go a step further and offer Darkness.

The premise is simple....