The Age of Love, aka, Big Soulless Hollywood Fart
I’m not generally one to get all up in arms about a TV show. But the other night I saw one that was so awful that somewhere in the first nine minutes I actually saw my soul drift sadly away from my body, desperately trying to slip out the window, most likely with the goal of getting to Virgin where it could pick up a quality show in DVD like the British Office.
This collection of images – which is really the only thing I can properly call it, because the premise is so horrifyingly substanceless that it can’t really qualify as a television show - puts a 30 year old bachelor in between a group of 40 year olds and a group of 20 year olds. Who will he PICK? Some hot, stupid, young people? Or some smart, not that hot, slightly older people? Are you listening women? Those are your choices as to what you can “be.”
To clarify: the 40 something aren’t “not that hot” because of their age; they’re “not that hot” because at least half of them appear to have had their faces placed on tennis stretchers. And the 20 something girls aren’t just stupid because they’re young -they’re stupid because they’re constantly dissing the older women, referring to them as “decrepit,” as if they hadn’t noticed that they too will one day age and be as “decrepit” as the women they’re mocking. Although some of them already have that weird thing going on where even though they’re 22 they look like they’re 44 and divorced seven or eight times.
What group of DICKWADS got together and decided it would be fun to turn women against each other in this manner????? At what point in their careers did they decide they simply didn’t give a shit about anything at all, including their own mothers, sisters, and daughters, and decided to just fart toxic crap all over the TV landscape? FUCK.
I feel like there’s more to say on this but I have to get drunk first. More later.
June 20th, 2007 at 8:07 pm
Ooh, yes. Drunken rant. Much anticipation. Short sentences. Yes.
June 21st, 2007 at 12:38 pm
I hope its bombing. Though it probably isn’t. I saw a commercial once and if another one comes on our if I even think that the ad might possibly be an ad for the show I turn the channel. I would rather watch…well, I was trying to think of something pathetic enough but I guess the answer so far is ANYTHING other than that.
It is horrifying. And degrading. And stereotype enforcing. And designed to make girls like me hate myself because OMG I’m going to be 40 in a few years. Well, they lose cause I’m still hot.
June 21st, 2007 at 7:21 pm
I hate alot of the so called “reality” TV, especially the dating ones, yuck. It’s so fake, the only way it can be considered “reality” TV is because hollywood lives in it’s own reality.
The previews just aired during the office, “Will he choose a cougar… or kitten?”…God I think I just threw up a little in my mouth. Will I choose…another channel? You betcha…
P.S. One of the reality TV shows I do watch is Last Comic Standing? How come you didn’t try out? They held auditions in NY I think! You could have done your “Who would kill more Jews” bit, would have been great. You could have really put your name out there and get some publicity! I don’t think we’ve seen you on The Showbiz Show at all this season….
July 6th, 2007 at 6:21 pm
muzakbox- it’s really annoying when women over 30 refer to themselves as “girls”.
July 16th, 2007 at 8:20 am
joe. it’s really annoying when men don’t get irony in language.
July 24th, 2007 at 6:43 pm
The most hateful waste of time on television- a medium actually based on hatefully wasting time.
Women (and men!) should find the people responsible for this thing and Keyser Soze them out of existence.
August 9th, 2007 at 10:25 am
gosh. that mark phillippousis has the personality of a rotten egg. and yes, of course he chose amanda boob job. she is a doormat who’ll forgive him all after he comes home having made out with forty women… what loser wouldn’t want that kind of wife back home!!