This weekend, we will have the next episode of
That's Amore! What to expect? More of the same, no doubt:
Domenico Nesci acting zany, some of the ladies acting shady, and probably some kind of gross-out food related stunt, unless the production was still busy enough hosing down the spaghetti sauce from the shooting of the first episode that they decided to take a break from all of it. You could try to make specific predictions about which girl will act out the most and which ones will go home, but, honestly, why bother?
Here's my conundrum with a show like
That's Amore! One of contestants,
Hunter, who was eliminated in the first episode, commented in her I Am On MTV profile video that shows like
That's Amore! are generally phony and implied this one is phonier than most.
Your Take
misanthrope said:
On another note, I mentioned this elsewhere, but if you take a close look at the pillow fight in the pool c...
misanthrope said:
I assume a lot of what we see on reality shows is staged. One interesting example is something i caught in...
At some level, we all know there is some amount of coercion, prodding, orchestration and manipulative editing that all goes into creating the drama on a reality show. However, when the shows themselves just start quite obviously acting out formulas, what's the point? What you have is should no longer be considered a reality show, instead, it's a sitcom with some really bad writers and a silly concept.
After watching the first episode of That's Amore!, I still find myself liking Domenico. And that makes sense – obviously you don't get a show unless you have something that an audience responds to. But why take someone whose appeal depends on being kind of a loose cannon and stick him into a formula as they're doing on
That's Amore!?
Without something truly at stake (i.e., an obviously-phony dating show doesn't build any real suspense that love is on the line), and with the star locked into following the rules of the formula, there isn't anything interesting left, really. The show's too silly to really believe or care if real love is found, but not silly enough to let its lead just be a goofball, because he's still got to at least make a pretense of taking it seriously. With that combination, it looks like the only highlights possible this season are of the Jerry-Springer, hair-pulling type. Which girl could go home this week? Who knows, but really the question is, is it even possible to care?
- Leslie Seaton, BuddyTV Staff Columnist
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