I did it. I wasted exactly one hour of my life last night–an hour I can never retrieve. I wasted this precious hour by watching Britney Spears’s “reality” show Chaotic and it was exactly as horrible as you would imagine. I hadn’t intended to watch it but I flipped channels and there it was and being the pop culture junky that I am, I got sucked in. This review nails it:

If this hastily jammed-together excuse for a May sweeps entry even began to approach the truth, it might be more, um, dangerous. But there’s precious little chance of that. Madonna, in whose image-perfect steps Britney treads, offered up way more reality in her 1991 documentary “Truth or Dare.” To anyone who believes Britney is Madonna Lite, you’ve got more evidence right here.

I will say that the only interesting part of the show is when Britney sometimes turns the camera on herself sans makeup and the viewer is able to see how truly young she is.