More to Love Episode 4: Good Wife, Bad Wife

Do any of you watch More to Love? Episode 4 was on last night.  I didn't think More to Love was real until I flicked past it last night while looking for something decent to watch. Basically, we're talking about a version of The Bachelor, but with contestants who are overweight. Each time I think we've reached the apotheosis of reality TV, I'm proven completely wrong. It's getting quite sad.

So I managed to watch about eleven and half seconds of More to Love before I had to either switch channels or throw the television out the window and into the street below. Since I didn't want to hurt any innocent pedestrians, I chose option A. Fortunately, TWoP has my back, as you'll see below, but still: this is definitely the most exploitative reality show I've yet seen, since it exploits two separate audiences: the single and lonely, and those who are self-conscious about their weight. There's overlap between the two groups, but not total overlap, and therein lies the marketing genius. I think it's horrible, though. Needless to say, I'm not in on shows like Biggest Loser, either, which are really just humiliation-porn disguised as self-help.

So, the More to Love Episode 4 recap:
Short version: Lonely  people humiliating themselves on TV for a fleeting taste of fame
Long version: see below.