Meredith Blake: Has "The Hills" Jumped The Shark?

MTV recently announced that Brody Jenner, the less than entirely convincing Lothario from "The Hills," has scored his own spin-off reality series called "Bro-mance," wherein he searches for a new best friend to replace the hole left in his heart by Spencer Pratt. Given the fact that virtually everyone in Brody's family and circle of friends and hangers-on already has their own reality show, this news seemed almost inevitable. Yet there was still something utterly, stupidly depressing about it. Brody is a peripheral character....errr cast member on a reality show that is in and of itself a spin-off of another reality show. If you will indulge me, he is Dwayne Wayne to Lauren Conrad's Denise Huxtable. Let me revise that: Spencer, in all his absurdity, probably has more in common with Dwayne Wayne; Brody definitely lacks the panache required to wear flip-up shades. He's more like Ron, the sidekick who was always trying to woo Whitley's friend whose name I forget. But I digress. My point is ... (link)