TV Show Round Up: Monday

By Lindsay Burrill / Boston

Premieres
VH1 premiered three news shows this week, all with the promise of being absolutely ridiculous. I don’t know where they find these people, but it makes for some very interesting television.

WEDDING WARS, VH1, Mondays

It was the premier of Wedding Wars, a reality show where twelve couples battle it out to win their dream wedding. They will be staying at the Turtle Bay Resort in Hawaii, and the winner will receive a one hundred thousand wedding there with a 25 thousand dollar nest egg for after. By any standard math equation, this is an obvious recipe for juicy drama. The kicker to the whole show, is that instead of living in the luxurious resort, the couples are living in in the jungle in air huts (they weren’t aware of this in the beginning). So now you have wedding crazed women, slowly contracting jungle fever (and not in the sexual way). On the first episode, the couples competed for bridal gowns and tuxes in a gift challenge, and then there was the “cake topper” security challenge. The couple that wins the challenge is safe from elimination for the week. To heighten the drama to the highest point possible, the couples are the ones who determine who to vote off at the end of each episode. Within the first ten minutes, one of the contestants already needed medical attention, after injuring her toe when it was stepped on by another contestant’s heel. So is it worth watching? For brain power… no, but for entertainment purposes, and to feel better about your life, I say go for it. The first couple to go was Johnny and Celestria. I’m voting for the Machester, NH couple to make it all the way…Live Free or Die son.