LET'S HEAR IT FOR THE BOY: Hello, David Smith.
Well, The Next Joe Millionaire has started (is its sequel, The Joe Millionaire After That already in production? Will they call it Seriously, Dude, Where's Joe Millionaire?), and so far, so good, I guess. The episode was padded more than John Olerud's batting helmet, but when it's quallity trash, who cares?
We don't know a lot about our cowboy friend yet, other than that he's real polite and mannerly like Willard, Kevin Bacon's dorky friend in Footloose -- you remember, the guy who he tried to teach how to dance -- and he's not that smart. ("Where's 'Dutch' again?" he said, pointing at the map.) Also, he loves his horse Hurricane, maybe more than the fourteen women vying for his affections -- and, maybe, it's justified. The horse, unlike the women, had no problem being awake before noon.
I can't yet tell most of the women apart, other than that the dark-haired ones seem more attractive and smarter than the blondes, and that one of the Italian women looks a lot like Alotta Fagina.
It's interesting -- not only is this show playing off of American stereotypes of nicotine-addicted Eurotrash girls, but also of European stereotypes of "the cowboy", highlighted when some of the women started humming the "Dallas" theme. "What's a rodeo?" they wondered, along with musing about the "villages" in which they believed people lived in Texas. They'll learn.
Another thing the women will learn, apparently, are the conventions of the reality-dating show. On the basis of the previews, they don't yet realize that there's going to be eliminations during the course of this show. Heh.
I've got a good feel for the editors this time -- the little "bing!" every time David correctly referred to the butler as "Paul" and not "sir" was a nice little wink to the audience, and the clips from the women emphasized all the silly, superficial, stupid things we watch these shows in order to see.
But David's still a bit of a mystery: how does he feel about participating in a fraud? Is he really looking for love, or did he just want to be on television? (My thoughts on this why this matters are here, in case you missed it.)
We will watch, and we will learn.
Anyone else?
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