Love in the Wild Recap: Another Beginning

Recaps

By MrsMiaWallace | Friday, June 8, 2012 | 6:00 am | 10 Comments
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Interestingly, not every one was shown to find the conch on camera… which is understandable since Tara (Tairhead) “Literally had a heart attack”. They also did not show the paramedics reviving her.

Tim has douche moment #2 in complaining about Tairhead’s fear of snakes and dropping the f-bomb. Way to swing into the lead!

 

Dubious honor of First to be Blurred

The next event was men chucking coconuts at a suspended mask that contained a new map. The twist was the winning thrower got a 5 second kiss with the girl while the other filmed it. Ha! Pointless and awkward, just like prom! Tim reveals his douche moment #3 claiming he gave Tara the best 5 seconds of her life.

Au contraire

The teams return to the beach to boat out to a dive spot for conch #2. They have old wooden boats that seem like red herrings because most of them fill with water and sink immediately and the teams just swim out to the dive spots and retrieve the conchs. The last even is shimmying up a pole for conch #3 and then running to Jenny M on the beach. First place is of course Summer and gang, who get the lush oasis bedroom, 2-4 get cabins, 5 and 6 have tents and the losing team gets the hellhole sleep pit. That team is of course, Arkansas Ali. I’m sure she will take it in stride!

The oasis is truly lush with a private chef and bartender but it seems a little boring for three strangers and there is only one bad. Gasp!

Who knew luxury could be so awkward?

The cabins seem quaint and the most social with a communal pool and again, just one bed per lodging. The tents are pretty spacious and honestly are probably more comfortable for three than one king bed in my opinion, but MrsMia has been camping before.

Could be worse

The hellhole turns out to be an open sided thatch hut with wood floors. There is a mosquito net and although it doesn’t look great I don’t see how it’s tortuous, except Ali threatens to leave because she can’t take it. Jason of the beautiful eyes, but not much camera time, takes the opportunity to try to comfort her but this is apparently the worst thing that has every happened to her. I am wondering if she skipped college and waking up on couches/floors/porches after stumbling around to find a clean surface to make the room stop spinning. That will make you appreciate a mosquito net.

The bathroom situation is ambiguous to me, it seemes there is a communal bathhouse for the tent people and we are led to believe just a sink for the hut-but Ali looks pretty groomed for the rest of the episode and we definitely see her using a hair dryer later, so I don’t know if the privation is strictly enforced. I guess ugly makes for bad TV.

“I know just how the children in Darfur feel”

The oasis trio eats but then decide it is lonely at the top and join the peasants by the pool for an evening of unwinding. There isn’t a lot of poolside hanky-panky but a few alliances are coming through. Summer has a short interlude with Dr. Cox – Summer, nooooo! You were my favorite with your scary swim skills and fearlessness at snakes and general badassedness!! Although admittedly Dr. Cox (real and nicknamed) may be the only man there with an ego big enough to withstand her superiority. Mike, sans hat, is throwing mad game Yanina’s way but its starting to seem over the top and his edge is slipping while Chase subtley woos her by offering to sleep on the floor for Yanina to have more bed space. Awww. There is a pretty good split of guys who offer to sleep on the floor and guys who decide to all pile in. The best is one of the guys in tents snoring all night like a buzz saw. Who’s not getting a rose!?!

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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.

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    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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