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'The Cougar' Pounces This Week
I just got my hands on a screener of TV Land's new dating reality series "The Cougar," premiering on April 15th. Now you know I love a good, juicy dating show, so I was eager to check out this "Bachelor" knock-off where a 40-year-old woman chooses from 20 twenty-something men.
Considering the show comes from "The Bachelor" creator Mike Fleiss, I won't be expecting a fairy tale wedding out of the show down the line - but if you are a reality junkie like me and are looking for painfully uncomfortable yet deliciously ridiculous train wreck TV, it's worth a look.
Scottsdale, Ariz. real estate agent Stacey Anderson is the cougar of the title. She fails to tell her patch of young cubs she has four children in the opening episode.
The youngest guy, a 21-year-old named Travis, will find out later in the series that Stacey has a daughter who is actually older than him. Ouch! Oh, and by the way, she has been married twice already, though I don't think any of these guys are really looking to settle down and actually make it to the altar. They are most likely just there for the TV exposure, to make general fools of themselves and brag about being on a TV show.
Like "The Bachelor", Stacey gets to meet the 20 guys prior to a "getting to know them" cocktail party minus the limo exit. Instead, they all stand in front of her and one by one try and impress her.
She'll then go on group dates and one-on-one dates and later, be forced to eliminate the unwanted each week. Instead of presenting her suitors with a rose, she presents her lips. Yep, that's what I said. Her lips. She tells each guy as they approach, "kiss me." If she gives you a kiss you are safe. If she gives you her cheek you're toast.
All I kept thinking while watching the show was, "I wonder what her poor children must be thinking?" Oh, and also how many of the guys tried out to be on "The Bachelorette" this season and wound up on this ridiculous show. The guys on that show usually seem like pretty stand-up guys while the batch here seem like a bunch of hard partying tools. On that note I wonder if any of them tried out for VH-1's "Tool Academy"?!
Like "The Bachelor", Stacey gets to meet the 20 guys prior to a "getting to know them" cocktail party minus the limo exit. Instead, they all stand in front of her and one by one try and impress her.
She'll then go on group dates and one-on-one dates and later, be forced to eliminate the unwanted each week. Instead of presenting her suitors with a rose, she presents her lips. Yep, that's what I said. Her lips. She tells each guy as they approach, "kiss me." If she gives you a kiss you are safe. If she gives you her cheek you're toast.
All I kept thinking while watching the show was, "I wonder what her poor children must be thinking?" Oh, and also how many of the guys tried out to be on "The Bachelorette" this season and wound up on this ridiculous show. The guys on that show usually seem like pretty stand-up guys while the batch here seem like a bunch of hard partying tools. On that note I wonder if any of them tried out for VH-1's "Tool Academy"?!
When will you start giving us some inside scoops on the Bachelorette? Don't you want to beat Reality Steve to the punch this time?
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Why do you champion this reality nonsense?
You must know that on top of being tedious, low-class, and exploitative, it is staged and edited to represent anything but "reality".