We are careening towards the finale of the second season of I Love New York and there is one very large question looming over our heads: How on earth does this show exist? I mean, beyond the truly tasteless aspects of the show (and they are legion), the whole thing is just so fundamentally bizarre.

But as we try to wrap our heads around Sister Patterson, the spitting, the toe-sucking, and of course, at the heart of it all, New York herself, Tiffany Pollard, we have some information to help us in our attempt to understand the weird phenomenon that is I Love New York.

Buddha has written again! He is a man who cannot be contained by a mere one-hour reality program, and he's been posting his perspective into recent episodes. Here's what he had to say about the recent episode that showed him kissing and telling about his evening with New York.

“[Tailor Made] and [Punk] were using New York's weakness (her personal insecurities) against her so I decided to do the same thing to them. I never told them her and I had sex (because we didn't) I only spoke VERY general and let their imaginations play on their insecurities & seeing as how these two ‘boy friends' are always lying on me anyhow I might as well give them something to talk about,” he wrote.

He continued that he was disappointed that his genius plan was misrepresented in the final edit, saying, “It was not disrespectful by any means and I'm slightly insulted that production chose not to display the prank in its full HILARIOUSNESS!! The camera men could hardly hold the camera's straight from laughing so hard later... it was not by any means disrespectful but it was ST[R]ATEGY. The following morning New York DID find the prank funny however production left out her laughing for dramatic purposes. I didn't care to justify my actions because they were self-evident to anyone paying attention and New York is hardly as dumb as The Chump [Punk] thinks she is.”

Say what you will about Buddha, but the man knows his reality television. Here's his take on the edit of that last program. “Obviously they would know at this point MANY people would think highly of me…at this point production would need to relay a counter position to my previously portrayed character in order to ‘keep audiences guessing' and humanize the winner…They now give you mixed feelings about me so that you are torn about who is the ‘good guy and bad guy.' They make it seem like [Tailor Made's] previous actions were ‘not really so bad' and I'm really the ‘evil man.'…There's an old chinese proverb some might do well to learn, ‘a person is not who you see today but who he has always been all the days prior.'”

So ‘humanize the winner,' eh? Unless Buddha means that in order to humanize his polished perfection, he needed some flaws, did he just tip his hand that Tailor Made is getting the final chain? After all, it's Tailor Made who really needs to be made more relatable.

We'll have to tune in to the finale of I Love New York 2 to find out!


-Leslie Seaton, BuddyTV Staff Columnist
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