Taradise: Taradox
So now the program formerly known as Wild on Tara has been renamed Taradise, for reasons that I'm sure make sense to someone. This episode -- thankfully only half an hour -- focuses on the San Fermin Festival in Pamplona and related running of the bulls. Probably because there is so much action-packed footage to gather, there was startlingly less drinking than in the premiere (though this was only half as long). Perhaps reacting to this, host Tara Reid comments wistfully while observing the revelers, "I've never seen so much drinking in your life -- it's a festival of life." Tara spends the episode in a fascinating series of white dresses/tops (I counted five) with the signature red neckerchief of the bull-runners, but she has yet to uncover herself on camera -- possibly to give her lipo time to heal (today's photo depicts her practicing bikini tai chi apparently). And despite keeping herself well away from any potential goring (unfortunately for the viewer), Tara describes herself as being "scared" about a dozen times, at one point pondering, "Am I having fun now, or am I scared?". Tellingly, she wraps the whole thing up with a self-analytical bow by declaring, "I think this trip is actually making me more humble." Don't be so hard on yourself, babe. That's my job.
Drink Report
Methodology: Drinks are counted when anyone on the show drinks any beverage or is shown holding a beverage (no attempt is made to differentiate alcoholic from supposedly non-alcoholic, i.e. clear fluid with lemon wedge). Tara Drinks are counted when Tara drinks a beverage on camera. Pours of beverages are the producers? semaphore for further excessive drinking off-camera.
Drinks: 35
Tara Drinks: 1
Pours: 0
Celebrity Cameos: None; dreams of a meeting of the "minds" between Tara and Dennis Rodman are dashed. Suspect limelight-stealing Paris Hilton cameo from premiere led Tara to scale back future cameos.
Celebrity Antics: Limited to Tara herself, and consisting mostly of her energetically and vapidly commenting on the bull run she declined to join.
Tara in Danger: Tara's sense of self-preservation was strong in this episode, as she ultimately refused to run with the bulls after this exchange with a bull-run expert:
TARA: You guys better be protecting me!
EXPERT: I'll be honest, I won't be protecting you.
TARA: (hurt look, pouting)
EXPERT: It's every man for himself out there.
Tara Mack Report: No visible macking. All those who commented were Brits, Americans, or Australians, and they were all bull-run nerds, if you can imagine such a thing. Longest and most boring nightclub montage ever didn't feature any mack targets, nor did it even have the usual fatuous voiceover -- leading this reviewer to suspect it was spliced in to cover a gap or a deleted segment.
Cultural Moment: Even for this show, little cultural or local info is conveyed. As noted above, Tara manages to speak to no Spaniards at all about the bull run. Despite this, later she marvels, "There's so much here, the history. We learned so much about it." We did?
Tara Self-Loathing Index: Existential and very Hemingway. Over the course of the show, even though she refused to actually run with the bulls, Tara shames herself into unconsciously speaking as if she did participate. Note factual corrections in brackets: "So much that goes into this ... and the running of the bulls is such a beautiful experience [that I didn't have]." Or, "Absolutely, I'd [try to] do it again." Or, "I just [did not have] the craziest experience!"
Episode in a Nutshell: Neither scared nor having fun.
Wild On Tara?s Stomach [Defamer]
considering liposuction? [cityrag]
Tara Reid goes wild again (and again) [MSNBC]
Tara Reid Drinking Game [Liquid Generation]
Taradise [E!]
Previously: Wild on Tara Premiere: Shooting the Shit, Wild on Tara Aperitif, Odds on Wild on Tara, Wild on Tara Reid, Drunk Bull-Runners Precious When Sleeping
