There’ll be no More Scrapping
There’ll be no More Scrapping [Sung to the Tune of Pee-Wee’s “There’ll be no More Napping”] by Roxanne McDonald
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The first episode of the new season of Work Out has Jackie assuring us (and herself) that she has had enough drama. Hmmm. |
“The drama in my life was really over the top,” Jackie tells us at the start of episode one of this new season. She explains how she and Mimi just couldn’t keep it together, how since her friends have stuck by her she has been able to take her dreams to the next level, and how Mimi is still in her life, just not so much.
Mimi may not be in Jackie’s life so much, but if the first episode is any indication, she will be in ours….
The focus returns to what we might in fact tune in to the show for in the first place: the work out studios. All Jackie’s success and the success of Skylab—er, SkySport—have gone to the heads of her trainers, she
tells us. Trainers Jesse, Rebecca, Doug, Andre, Gregg, Zen, and Erika are interviewed and featured doing their thing. Brian bugs the others with how his hands are “the hands of Michelangelo;” Jesse suggests Brian doesn’t really know who Michelangelo is; Rebecca is still using sexuality and a fine ass to put bodies in the seats or on the mats; and new pet Jesse is teased, lectured, and ratted out for gaining weight and eating too much or the wrong foods.
The new venture in Jackie’s mind—oh, it is Skylab, now—has her running her team through the rigors of her special version of boot camp; and she is really disappointed in them: they have nasty, recalcitrant attitudes, walk away from challenges she administers, and report how they think this regime is unnecessary, ridiculous, an insult.
Next are scenes where trainers take on especially needful clients. Doug works with a longtime ex who is in renal failure and must increase his strength for dialysis procedures. Erika has drawn a client, Beverly, who drives all the way from L.A. to get help as a recovering bulimic (coming to Erika because after ten years of throwing up, the few months she has worked with Erika, Beverly has not purged once).
Now this and real training scenarios are what we likely expect from a reality TV show called Work Out (and even if, especially if, Jackie is doing this show to increase business, wouldn’t she want to focus on the way the “labs” work versus the many romantic delusions and confusions and distractions that make her appear less invested in the professional end than in the dramatic ends?)
But drama ensues in the team social settings, with Jesse and Doug still going at it over some past interview comments Doug made and Jesse retaliated over; with the hint of issues between Erika and Gregg—who once dated and who now are just eh toward each other (though Gregg announces to us that she is a great girl…great legs, great face, great stomach… Oh, that’s what makes a woman!?).
And Mimi, she’s ba-a-ack. She aint got nothing on Danny Bonaduce, but she has an allure Jackie cannot refuse, one that thought it includes biting and hurting her mate, hurling bar drinks into a crowd of people and into
wall-length mirrors does nothing to keep Jackie from really, no really, meaning it when she says, “Enough.” Well, that, and Jackie determines that bad communication and work came between them; then, again, months apart do nothing but bring them back together. “Here I am at my age and I still don’t have a healthy relationship,” she says. “This is my addiction. This is the last really irritating part of myself that I still can’t overcome.”
So couples’ counseling it is. And while we get to see what are edited snippets, to be sure, it is already clear the train wreck that is Jackie and Mimi will drag on and on and on—unable as they are to make this love work out.
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