Love in the Wild Recap: Another Beginning

Recaps

By MrsMiaWallace | Friday, June 8, 2012 | 6:00 am | 10 Comments
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Ben- looks less than thrilled at getting the paleface. He claims ladies like him for the wrong reasons- namely his cockney accent. Well, when you look like Gavin Rossdale mated with Carrot Top, there is not a lot to choose from.

Circus chic

Ali – A nasal southern princess who basically says she is a princess, southernly and nasally. She is also addicted to raccoon eye makeup, which is a look that should wear well in high humidity!

“Jenny McCarthy taught me everything I know about eyeshadow”

Jason – He is chosen by Ali for having pretty eyes. And boy does he ever. I actually thought Cina would go for him but I don’t think she likes to share the limelight and he is way prettier than she is.

Being hotter than the women is a death sentence

Yanina- An Argentinean hottie and the first person of the group who looks over 30, also she mentions age twice in her 10 second intro, I smell an insecurity!

There’s no such thing as too old for attention seeking

Ken – chosen by the Argentinian beauty

Just pleased to not be last

Shauna – She has pale creepy zombie eyes but her skin is leathery and her features simian… Monkey Zombies, I knew it.

The Ape-pocalypse is coming

Christian – he is chosen last and he deserves it!

Enjoy the camera time now

The twist is immediate, each girl must now choose ANOTHER guy to make a douche sandwich with and they quickly pick through another gang of winners. No one is really profiled and thank goodness for that. Why do women always look hot and get uglier as you get to know them and guys always look average and get hotter as their personalities come out? I would make a very superficial lesbian, but a very deep hetero. Lucky MrWallace.

If she can hold everything perfectly still, the girls will age faster than her

The task is to find three conch shells in a series of physical challenges and the stakes are quality of accommodations. Jenny makes a very big deal of how bad the last place site is and Arkansas Ali immediately protests she’s never even slept in a tent. Fairly easy setup for last place there, I believe the editors like this show quick and dirty. Like I like my martinis. The instructions are in backpacks dropped into the ocean via chopper, with one person selected to swim out and retrieve it. Summer reveals herself to be a competitor and a college swimmer by volunteering and being the only female who swam. Mike, one of the newcomers reveals himself to be a strategist by holding back although he is a life guard/swim coach in order to get to know his teammate Yanina better.Not sure the strategy is the greatest but that hat says it all.

In case you wondered if the contestants had a wardrobe department. They don’t.

Summer actually outswims all 6 boys with great ease. I am le impressed. Her team is then the first to discover task #2 is to drop the women into a well full of snakes

Seriously, snakes

to dig conch #1 out of sand. Now, I am not a shrinking violet, but this challenge was handled surprisingly well by everyone. Either it was so hot the snakes were not as reactive as the edits made it seem or there was some producer intervention because I think tears and frozen panic would’ve been involved in my participation in this. The teams muddle around with some girls really breaking out their full competitive spirit (Summer and Yanina) and some shrieking and whining a bit (Shauna and Cina), but all made it through.

Monkey hate snake

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MrsMiaWallace is an east coast girl with a  penchant for travel, libations and great cuisine. She is not known to turn down a mimosa or a martini and finds the transition between the two a good way to mark the passing of time since she can never remember to wear a watch. Her secret love for reality tv and addiction to Bravo have drawn her like a moth to the glittering snark of TVGasm,  where she finds there are others like her... hopefully also nursing Bloody Marys.

10 Comments

  1. 1
    Mummy Butterfly
    Posted June 8, 2012 at 7:02 am

    YAY! I am so glad this show is being recapped. I cannot stand Jenny M – but was intrigued by the show. Reading your recaps are BETTER than watching the show – all the snark, none of the Jenny M’s voice!

    I agree that it is “Chase the Marine” show to lose. And I love Ginger Head girl. :)

  2. 2
    featherhead
    Posted June 8, 2012 at 7:07 am

    I give those girls props – cause there is no way in hell that anyone is lowering me down into a pit of hell with all those snakes!! I love this show and was glad to see it back this season. And better yet, awesome recap!

  3. 3
    snowshoecat snowshoecat
    Posted June 8, 2012 at 7:12 am

    Mummy, I know what you meant, but I giggled like a sixth grade boy at your description!!,

    feather, so agree about the snakes. Yikes!

    And MrsMW, thank you so much for watching this so we won’t have to, mmmmmwwwwwaaaaa.

  4. 4
    polk8dot
    Posted June 8, 2012 at 12:34 pm

    I watched this show in its first season last year. The premise itself is fun, and the picturesque surroundings made it easy on the eyes (the nature shots were OK, too, hehe).
    The only thing that I thought was going to keep me from watching the next season, if it ever came, was the fricking Australian host. He was unbearable! I swear he made even that awesome, hot accent somehow annoying. So I was extatic to hear that there is a new host this time.
    Oh, s#it!!!! Beware what you wish for!
    I never suspected that anything could make me wish for that Aussie weirdo to come back, but ‘Jenny’ (I refuse to just call her that as a real name, it sounds like a stage prop or something; but then on her, probably only some stripper name would sound natural) – oh, yeah, she’s it.
    This bit@h’s voice is killing me!!! For the love of all that is good, WHO gave her this job? Did they not realize she was going to have TO TALK?!
    Mother of…, that constant screaching, that incessant ‘humor’ forcing, that delusion of remaining ‘hotness’ are f-ing pathetic.
    I shall from now on call her THE SHRILL. :)

  5. 5
    snowshoecat snowshoecat
    Posted June 8, 2012 at 1:24 pm

    Polk8, am I correct in assuming that you’re not a huge fan of the host?

  6. 6
    itchy itchy
    Posted June 8, 2012 at 2:33 pm

    It’s always difficult to know exactly how Polk8dot feels. Such a diplomat.

  7. 7
    snowshoecat snowshoecat
    Posted June 8, 2012 at 2:43 pm

    I know, itchy. That’s why I wanted clarification. Reading between the lines is so harrrrrd.

  8. 8
    Sarah
    Posted June 9, 2012 at 12:30 am

    Love the recap! I will look forward to it each week. My only “reality” guilty-pleasure was “The Apprentice”, so I’m happy to find this show to take its place. Perfectly summed up as being both less Disney yet less trashy as well. Thanks for the laughs…
    …Oh, and just for the record, Leo was actually cavorting in the pool in his UNDERWEAR, not a Speedo in Episode 1. (Note how they had to blur his package, as his little underpants showed a bit too much when wet – Ugh!)

  9. 9
    itchy itchy
    Posted June 11, 2012 at 3:44 pm

    Ah, see, I’m a sucker for southern princesses, so that pretty much says it all. There’s something off about most of the other girls’ faces — especially Summer (and her boy hips) and the Monkey Girl, but the Argentinean girl too. The redhead seems kind of frumpy — she’s covering up. But at least her tits seem real.

    The guys are just your typical slab-0-beef reality Ken dolls.

    Also, Jenny McCarthy may be annoying but she at least a bit more animated than the soulless stiff they had last season.

  10. 10
    ludlow
    Posted June 13, 2012 at 7:22 am

    I watched this show last year and it was my guilty pleasure. I didn’t find the host as annoying as the commentor above and was dismayed to find Jenny McCarthy now center stage – she’s awful. I do think it’s much more interesting than all of the other “dating/love shows” because it shows situations where you have to count on your partner and it doesn’t sugar-coat the results. Last year there were some actual friendships/relationships that developed, according to Jenny, are still going. So for all of you newbies – enjoy!

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