Will We also Love New York?
Will We also Love New York? by Roxanne McDonald
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Or better yet, will they (the contestants)? |
Whether “I Love New York” is a weak rip-off of spin-off style ala “The Bachelorette” or whether it is a logical and justified spin-off that New York deserves after being told what time it was not once but twice by Flava Flav, the intrigue at this point is in how viewers and the suitors will be able to take umpteen hours more of the queen of histrionics.
How many are there for acting career boosts also aside, the men must be motivated enough to suffer New York’s self-indulgence. Worse, New York’s mother will appear on the show, equipped with the furious fuselage she has stored up these oh so many months since she tried to demolish Flav.
Granted, New York was one of the most intelligent young women on Flavor of Love—if not the most intelligent. But the dramatics eclipsed the gifts of good looks and smarts, making Shakespeare’s shrew look like a field mouse next to New York’s mouthy and mangy madness and mayhem.
The clip of the preview of “I Love New York”—which is on YouTube and linked by Reality Blurred—is loud, messy, and at the same time promising…promising lots of lanky, beefy, and buff buffoons in the buff eating, sunning, dancing, fighting, and flirting.
And while some of the men have some appeal, what looked most engaging was a blur of a clip of someone in a white dress tumbling down the stairs. Could it be New York has finally taken ambush format and enhanced it with her ego—or enhanced her ego by way of the ambush theatre we know as really disturbing reality TV courtship?
Who will really love her? Who will love to watch her being made love to (in the old fashioned sense of the phrase)? And who will change the channel for more fictionalized mental illness of Monk or mothers swapping families or other “characters”?
And who among us—myself included—will masochistically stick with the show however much New York and mother mangle the men who really want to be there?
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