March 23, 2008
Previous on That's Amore! – Missy broke a statue and Rebecca cried, so they got sent home. Girl Ashley was eliminated, then came back to try to start a fight, to no avail. After just three episodes, 10 women have been eliminated.
Despite Girl Ashley asking Christina to destroy Talor upon her loud exit, Talor is trying to be friends with Christina, bonding over their mutual skinniness and large bust lines. Seriously, this is Talor's idea of friendship.
March 21, 2008
While my hopes have recently been raised that That's Amore! might come to a mercifully swift end, the fact is it is still on the schedule for Sunday. So nothing can keep me from my appointed rounds of making some guesses as to what could happen on the next episode.
So at the least, we have one positive to cling to: we're already down to five women. We have Kim, the villainess who kind of dropped the ball on her evildoing last episode of That's Amore! (although I guess it is hard to top reinventing the locker room scene from Carrie for pure alpha dog Mean Girl nastiness). We have virginal Kathleen, who, to me, seems to be the vey obvious front-runner for Domenico Nesci's heart in that she is a) a reported virgin and yet b) skilled at slutting it up in a French maid outfit for her man. And then there's some other girls.
March 17, 2008
Here's a valuable piece of life advice I'm about to give you, kids. Most of the time, if something seems like a questionable idea, but you decide to go ahead with it anyway, saying to yourself, “Well, how bad could it be?” the answer is probably: worse than you think.
Case in point: That's Amore! Before the season started, that's exactly what I thought. Domenico Nesci seemed cute enough on A Shot at Love with Tila Tequila. That show was pretty gross in its own way, but the kids on the show seemed somewhat likable anyway, so I found myself saying those exact words: How bad could That's Amore! be?
Three episodes in and it's clear: worse than I thought.
March 16, 2008
Previously on That's Amore! – Love got sick and had to go before spreading the plague to the rest of the women (they already have enough diseases to worry about, I imagine). Talor's ass was better than Jessica's, so Jessica was also sent home. Kim and Missy hazed Rebecca until she cried, then they did it some more.
While the other girls are at breakfast, Talor sneaks into Domenico Nesci's bed for some private cuddling. The girls get their pizza deliver and they are informed about yet another food-themed challenge, this one involving live chickens that Ashley McNeely is tending to. The chickens are for dinner, and Rebecca is already crying about it.
March 14, 2008
So what's going to happen this weekend on the third episode of That's Amore!? I have a feeling I know what isn't going to happen.
I'm pretty certain that uber-villain Kim isn't going anywhere anytime soon. Things can obviously always change on a dime in reality television, but if there is anything you can do to give yourself a little more longevity on a show like That's Amore!, I think that it would be tying a tampon in someone else's hair. That's reality gold. And besides, without Kim, what else has the show got? Sure, there's a lot of Italian cuisine the producers can force the girls to muck about in: fettuccine alfredo, osso bucco, some gelato…but you have to have a villain for at least a little while longer.
March 10, 2008
It is so appropriate that on a show like That's Amore!, there is a moment of confusion as the contestants try to figure out if a contestant is bleeding or simply covered in pizza sauce? Is something genuine happening or is this just more gimmick? In this case, Christina actually was bleeding for her man, Domenico Nesci, but no one can be blamed for having a moment of doubt.
So we are two episodes in, and I am starting to have one major question answered, but another big one still lingers. No, the first is not “Will Domenico find love?” and the second is not “But will it be reciprocated?”
March 9, 2008
Previously on That's Amore!: Domenico Nesci acted like the love child of Roberto Benigni and Super Mario. Ashley McNeely continued to have an allergy to sleeves. And Kim stepped forward as the Queen Bee-yotch of the show.
Boy Ashley wakes Domenico up, and I'm stunned his pajamas have sleeves. The two men decide to make breakfast for the ladies. The show revisits the blondes vs. brunettes rivalry in the house. Domenico takes virginal Kathleen aside for a smooch. Boy Ashley gives a nice speech about trying to find love for his BFF, which makes Rebecca cry. Kim hates this. Also, is it just me, or is Boy Ashley more appealing on this show than the guy the girls are trying to fall in love with?
March 7, 2008
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.