{"id":3641,"date":"2006-07-31T22:18:02","date_gmt":"2006-08-01T03:18:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com?p=3641"},"modified":"2006-07-31T21:09:06","modified_gmt":"2006-08-01T02:09:06","slug":"one_ocean_view_1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2006\/07\/31\/one_ocean_view_1\/","title":{"rendered":"One Ocean View, Two Desi Sisters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ll freely admit it. I enjoy reality TV. The obsession began during summer vacation in 1992 when I would sneak peaks at the first installment of MTV\u00c2\u2019s The Real World. My mom hated the show (she despised MTV), but I thought the concept of getting to watch Julie, Eric, Kevin, Norm, Becky, Andre, and Heather B, regular people live their daily lives was amazing. To my 13-year old eyes, reality tv was an easily accessible documentary.<\/p>\n\n<p>Well, the genre has come a long way since then, and has even taken a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sepiamutiny.com\/sepia\/archives\/002764.html\">couple of steps back<\/a>, but tonight ABC premieres what I like to call network television&#8217;s homage to the Real World for people who actually grew up watching The Real World, &#8220;One Ocean View.&#8221; The show, produced by <surprise> Real World Producer Jonathan Murray and Joey Carson,<\/p>\n\n<blockquote>\u00c2\u201crevolves around a summer share beach house where eleven, attractive, single, career-driven New Yorkers flee Manhattan each Friday to escape the soaring city temperatures for a different kind of heat.  One Ocean View is a show about people old enough to have real jobs, issues and baggage, but still young enough to leave all that behind and have a great time. Fun, flings and nights filled with romance heat up as the days grow shorter and the pressure builds to make this a summer to remember\u00c2\u201d(<a href=\"http:\/\/abc.go.com\/primetime\/oneoceanview\/about.html\">link.<\/a>)<\/blockquote>\n\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sepiamutiny.com\/sepia\/archives\/radhamiki.jpg\" width=\"206\" height=\"124\"align=right vspace=10 border=0 \/>More importantly, this show marks the reality tv debut of a couple of semi-professional soccer playing, organic-pizza eating, twin sisters, Radha (l) and Miki (r) Agrawal.  From some googling (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.tvgasm.com\/archives\/one_ocean_view\/002412.php\">thanks tvgas<\/a>m) and their bios, which conveniently read almost the same, we learn that the two were quite popular at Cornell, where they <a href=\"http:\/\/cornellbigred.cstv.com\/sports\/w-soccer\/spec-rel\/091099aaa.html\">both played soccer<\/a> and were in the stage version of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rso.cornell.edu\/risleytheatre\/shows\/cyrano.html\">Cyrano De Bergerac<\/a>, and quit investment banking to open up an <a href=\"http:\/\/journalism.nyu.edu\/pubzone\/livewire\/food\/no_pie_in_the_sky\/#assets\">organic pizza parlor<\/a> in New York\u00c2\u2019s upper east side.  Apparently, the pizza parlor, which has been featured on the food network, grew out of Miki\u00c2\u2019s lactose intolerance.  I can\u00c2\u2019t say the show is going to be good, in fact everything <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2006\/07\/30\/AR2006073000905.html\">I have read<\/a> and seen about it indicates quite the opposite, but hey, it can\u00c2\u2019t be worse than <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sepiamutiny.com\/sepia\/archives\/003304.html\">divya and priya\u00c2\u2019s<\/a> sweet sixteen\/graduation party. One Ocean View premieres tonight on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abc.com\/\">ABC<\/a> at 10 pm (EDT).<!--more--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ll freely admit it. I enjoy reality TV. The obsession began during summer vacation in 1992 when I would sneak peaks at the first installment of MTV\u00c2\u2019s The Real World. 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