I’ll fess up. I watched the first episode last night and I was sorely disappointed. It wasn’t a freak show. Well, no more of a freak show than any show with 30 people willing to marry each other sight unseen is going to be by default. For the most part the “suitors” and the brides and grroms seemed like reasonable, well-adjusted people. The worst behaviour the entire night was the guy who Jill’s dad eliminated by saying he didn’t dress modern enough who then cracked wise on dad’s shirt. Other than that everyone actually seemed willing to conduct themselves with actual decorum.
In other words, it was DEAD BORING.
Seriously, anyone else watch it? Anyone actually vote? Who would you match up? I’d pair off Jill and Markus, Steven and Denise L and Billie Jeanne and the used car salesman.
Anyone else envisioning the sequel, maybe with the discarded “suitors” being paired up and married off amongst themselves?
My girlfriend and I were hoping we wouldn’t get addicted to it like we did to Joe Millionaire. Glad to admit, I am far from addicted. Two words: bo-ring.
never even heard of it.what network is it on and i’ll make sure to avoid it.seriously, these reality shows are crap, i cannot believe tv has sunk to this dumb level. i beg you all to rejectthis type of programming until it fades away.please for the love of god(in a chris farley voice) turn off that tv…
Not very good. Very deliberately paced (aka boring). To be entertaining at all it depends on having interesting suitors. For instance, the set of five girls were personality-free, and so who cares?
Gotta concur. I was hoping for good point-and-laugh teevee. But after fifteen minutes, my brain hopped out of one ear, loped over to the remote, and turned it off.
Another vote for boooooring. I can’t comment on your suggestions for pairings because other than Billie Jeane they were all completely interchangeable. Billie Jeane, on the other hand, desperately needs to have her medication adjusted.
I see no reason to ever tune in again – and I’m the ultimate reality slut.
Last night was actually the third episode. Ep 2 was last Wednesday in which the last two sets of suitors were pared down.
Based on last night’s ep, who’s going to make it and who’s going to crash and burn? I think Jill and her fiance have a shot based on the obvious instant infatuation, and Billie Jeanne and Tony will make it because they are both big skanks. no idea about the other three couples. I got two out of three right on my recommendations from last week.
One thing that struck me was when the host was lambasting the woman who had posed for Playboy and had been married. It seemed unnecessarily cruel to me. Also, if I was the guy in that couple, I’d be going “Gee, thanks, America, for ruining my chance to hook up for a Playboy bunny…”
Also, I think that the thing that makes this and other “reality” series unappealing to me is that they aren’t “reality” at all. It’s just a bunch of Hollywood wannabes whoring for stardom. Some may be entertained by seeing crass idiots make fools of themselves on TV, I just think it’s pathetic.
I was expecting a nice blowup from the girl who was already married. (It was so nicely hyped-up by Mr.-Tonight-Even-makes-his-final-choice!) Just a fake smile and headshake? bleah…
I watched last night’s episode almost completely on fast-forward. Proposals are so boring! The car trip from the previews looks good and juicy though. Very clever producers.
This was the most boring show I ever tried to watch, but the re-cap for the first show on www.televisionwithoutpity.com was one of the most funniest things I ever read.
I had never watched before last night, but because Fox was hyping the hell out of it, I decided to catch the last hour.
What a twisted pile of humanity. First, the blond guy who called off his wedding needs to get honest and come out. Every word out of his mouth was so wraped in chiffon that the needle on my gaydar was in the red zone! "DANGER, WILL ROBINSON, DANGER! BIG OL’ QUEEN IN IMMINENT FLAME-ON!
And what’s up with this “you’re SUCH an AMAzing person” crap that kept being spouted? The almost-brides and faux-grooms were a quartet of the least interesting, dull, lifeless inmates of suburbia I’ve seen in a while. None of them seemed especially interesting or intelligent (especially the Neanderthal-looking hunk in the first couple–you could see the low wattage brain weakly trying to piece together words into semi-complete thoughts.)