Or should that title be “Looking Forward to the Season Finale”? With the way MTV has blown through this season of That's Amore!, it seems like not even its own network is particularly sad to see this show come to a close.
Ultimately, I do still feel bad for Domenico Nesci. He had managed to emerge from A Shot at Love with Tila Tequila with the affection of the viewers…only to probably squander most of it by then appearing on this train wreck of a show.
Your Take
BuddyD said:
I respect MTV a bit for getting this over with as quickly as possible.
BuddyDebbie said:
Domenico is one classy dude. This picture is fantastic.
Generally, when the parents appear on a reality dating show, it's kind of a moment of sanity in the midst of the reality ridiculousness (Sister Patterson on Flavor of Love excepted). The hysterics and drama seem to be set aside as everyone is kind of shamed into better behavior by the appearance of legitimate grown-ups who actually act like grown-ups.
Of course, on That's Amore!, the grown-ups picked a fight and participated in a cannoli-sucking contest. So much for the normalizing influence.
This week, Megan, Kim and Domenico will head to Italy to meet with his family. I just pray that MTV had a little more restraint with what they planned for the Italian section because seriously: do we need any more international resentment for our actions?
As to whom he will pick…Kim's been shown in a more positive light over recent weeks, but it's the New York factor: the villainess rarely wins this kind of show. I think that Domenico's Old World taste will tend more towards the sweeter Megan.
No matter what happens with the show, here's the main thing I would love to see come out of the finale of That's Amore!: a temporary moratorium on producing these kinds of shows.
I know we have the next season of A Shot at Love with Tila Tequila already shot and ominously looming, but after that, let's give it a rest for a while and build up a backlog of the kind of truly entertaining crazies that made the first seasons of many of these VH1 and MTV shows actually kind of fun.
- Leslie Seaton, BuddyTV Staff Columnist
(Image courtesy of MTV)