OK, I'm part of the problem. I'm calling her Marcia Brady instead of Maureen McCormick, and she's doing this American Idol meets The Surreal Life reality show partly because she's sick of everyone calling her Marcia.

But I'm a child of the '70s. And once a Brady, always a Brady.

However, I'm also a country music fan, and that's what's drawing me toward and repelling me from the new CMT show Gone Country. I watched the first episode of it this weekend and was not as horrified as I expected to be. But I was a little horrified.

The premise is your basic fish-out-of-water reality show: Seven mostly non–country music professionals are competing to be the next big country sensation. And, of course, they're living together in a mansion and sharing bedrooms — because that's what people on reality shows do. It's not really clear what all of their agendas are. … continue reading