At this point I am tuning in because of Enzo

I guess we aren't the only ones who feel that this season of The Hills is less than exciting...

The L.C. Effect: Why 'The Hills' Fails Without Lauren



You can take 'The Hills' out of Orange County, but you can't take Lauren Conrad out of 'The Hills'. At least not without some pretty big consequences. Season 6 opened sans its blond starlet, who decided to move on after half a decade on the reality show circuit.

After Conrad announced her decision to bail on TV in the hopes of leading a more private life focused on her fashion career, producers brought in Conrad's old schoolmate, Kristin Cavallari, as a replacement. Alongside Speidi, Audrina and the rest of the well-tanned Cali kids, Cavallari reprises the role she stepped into as a teenager on Hills precursor 'Laguna Beach': a flirtatious, manipulative man-eater, all shiny locks and come-hither stares. On 'Laguna' she battled Conrad for the affections of pretty boy Stephen Colletti, and it seems she's up to her old tricks in Hollywood, setting her sights on Audrina Patridge's on-again-off-again, Justin Bobby. But so far Cavallari's episodes have failed to elicit the spark we've come to expect from the drama-filled half hour.


And viewers seem to agree. Ratings were down 30% for Cavallari's premiere episode, pulling only 2.1 million sets of eyes as opposed to the 3 million who tuned in to last season's opener. This seems to be a pattern for MTV: Ratings plummeted on 'Laguna' after Conrad left the sandy shores of her hometown for the glitz of Los Angeles. A poorly received LC-less third season sent the Laguna High kids packing.

Perhaps that's because Lauren Conrad offers something very essential to her shows. She's the grounded protagonist, ambitious and relatively normal. For the viewer, Conrad is the identifiable core, a filter through which to experience all the chaos that goes on around her. Whereas Cavallari was introduced as the anti-heroine off the bat, a role already occupied to perfection by Heidi Montag. Having wasted no time feuding with the girls and playing all the guys, Cavallari leaves us without a gal to root for.

Perhaps this will change as the show's new lineup settles into itself. But so far, without Lauren Conrad, 'The Hills' is barely even 'The Knolls.'

Here is another take on it...pay particular attention the hi-lighted paragraphs...couldnt agree more..we caught onto this long ago though!

'The Hills' Slump in Ratings Due to Kristin?

There's just no denying it; the fans are missing LC. Kristin Cavallari's drama on The Hills just doesn't fill the void that Lauren Conrad left when she departed, and it's very obvious given the recent ratings of the show.

According to E! Online, things aren't looking to good for the new storylines that Kristin Cavallari has brought to The Hills. Sure, it's not the same as LC's but hardly anyone's giving it a chance. Whether or not it's worth another chance remains questionable though.



Since the premiere of the new season, The Hills has gone further and further towards doom on the scale of ratings. The show is down one-third its usual, with the premiere which features Cavallari only getting 30 percent of the previous season premiere last April.

Even though the slow descent to failure of The Hills is apparent, the network refuses to let it go. Medialife Magazine reports that MTV stated that the series remained as the highest-rated cable show in the channel's target audience, viewers 12-34. In addition to that, it is still the highest-rated program on television in its timeslot in that demographic.

Maybe MTV needs to check the numbers again. During the season premiere, The Hills garnered 2.36 million total viewers. Three episodes later, it received a mere 1.72 million. That's practically half of the original number.

If LC really wanted The Hills to remain a success, as she said before, then she better return to give it a boost. Kristin Cavallari certainly isn't doing a good job, despite the massive flirting she's doing with everyone else's boyfriends. There are just too many attempts to force drama on the show that it hardly works anymore.

Even the star herself has acknowledged how staged everything is. Cavallari told the Los Angeles Times before her debut that her performance on The Hills is downright fake.

"I pretty much do anything they have me do because I don't care," she said. "Everyone is trying to get story lines and create drama in their lives. It's just so...fake. There's no truth to it. At all."

Well, now we don't have to wonder why everyone's been leaving The Hills - from the fans to the stars. Hopefully, the network also joins that bandwagon.

ok and in addition to the above articles calling out their fakeness, didn't we call this as well??

The Hills’ fakes alcoholism for ratings

It’s no secret that Lauren Conrad is missed by many on this painfully boring season of The Hills, but perhaps the people who need her the most are her biggest enemies: Spencer Pratt and Heidi Montag. You see, without LC around to torture, the toxic couple has been forced to develop storylines faker than Mrs. Pratt’s breasts — and it’s becoming quite offensive.

The latest victim of the Speidi publicity machine is Heidi’s sister Holly and her love for booze. Obviously I am not a close friend of the saner Montag, so I do not know first-hand whether or not Holly is really an alcoholic. But my guess is that she’s not, and this whole situation has been fabricated by the Pratts in an effort to stir up drama. (I preferred the “Heidi wants kids” storyline, starring my new favorite Hills castmember, Enzo, but that’s just me.)
On tonight’s episode, Holly will forget last week’s promise that she would give up the alcohol and suffer through an intervention with Heidi and Stephanie, Spencer’s pointless sister. But there’s no evidence to support the fact that Holly is an alcoholic, and there’s lots of evidence proving that these famewhores will do anything to stay on television. In fact, if Holly really did have a problem with addiction, Stephanie’s drunken attendance (and subsequent DUI) at Holly’s recent birthday party is probably sending the wrong message. It’s insulting to viewers who have actually dealt with alcoholism-and it’s a serious disease that has no place on a fake MTV reality show.

I give Lauren a lot of credit for walking away from this train wreck. Too bad because I really love to watch this show but when they start insulting the average intelligence...well its time to go. On the bright side, if The Hills goes (which I doubt it will) we will have Audrina's new show, The Audrina Show, to look forward too!

Jayde Nicole: Brody And I Are Still Together!



What breakup rumors?

Former Playboy playmate Jayde Nicole, who threatened to leave boyfriend Brody Jenner on the Oct. 27 episode of The Hills if he continued to hang with ex Kristin Cavallari, tells Usmagazine.com she and Jenner, 26, are still a couple and going strong.
"Yes, we're still together," Jayde, 23, told Us at the launch party for the Behold II by Samsung Wednesday in Los Angeles.

This season of the MTV series has tested the couple's relationship, and chronicled the love triangle between Jayde, Jenner and Cavallari, 22. On Tuesday's episode, Jayde came face-to-face with Cavallari to stick up for her man.

"You don't think that in the entire city of Hollywood you could find other guys other than Justin and Brody?" she asked Cavallari -- who dated Jenner in 2006 -- during the episode. "Everything was totally fine before you came here, so you need to go back to wherever it is that you came from."

As the two remaining episodes making up season five's bonus shows air, Jayde also confirms she and Jenner will be back for another season of Hills drama.

"Brody and I are already wrapped [for season five] and I'm sure the rest of the cast will wrap this week. There will be a sixth season and it starts filming right after New Years," she tells Us.

The Hills season finale airs Dec. 1 on MTV.

Whew! what a relief to know they are still together!

These 2 are such dickheads