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Making the Band 2

Making the Band 2’s “most disturbing moments”: fights, family member deaths.

by Andy Dehnart 20 Dec. 2002 | 6:45 am

Making the Band 2’s “most disturbing moments”: fights, family member deaths.
Making the Band 2, which is following the creation of a hip-hop group shepherded by P Diddy, has seen more trauma than the entire three seasons of the first series combined. Entertainment Weekly “counts down the show’s most troubling scenes,” from a fight in the street between cast members broken up by producers and police to cast member Mysterious finding out “that her missing sister’s body parts have been found in a garbage can.”

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Andy Dehnart’s writing and criticism about television, culture, and media has appeared on NPR and in Vulture, Pacific Standard, The Los Angeles Times, and other publications. He has covered reality television for more than 18 years, and created reality blurred in 2000.

A member of the Television Critics Association who serves on its board of directors, Andy, 41, also directs the journalism program at Stetson University in Florida, where he teaches creative nonfiction and journalism. He has an M.F.A. in nonfiction writing and literature from Bennington College. Learn more about reality blurred and Andy.

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