Trailer Trash: Love in the Wild: Detecting a Pattern

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By Jaycee | Friday, June 24, 2011 | 1:00 pm | 4 Comments
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Posted in: Featured, Love in the Wild, Recaps, Trailer Trash TV

***Please welcome your newest recapper, Jaycee!


Submitted for your approval, one promo for NBC’s totally original, totally real, totally not clichéd new reality show, Love in the Wild, in which 20 terminally single men and women try to fend for themselves in [a comfortable house in] the jungles of Costa Rica, as potential romantic pairings. The producers tout this show as Survivor meets The Bachelor(ette). You could also tout it as The Amazing Race meets Temptation Island, or Man vs. Wild meets Blind Date, or Fear Factor meets [insert noun here] of Love. Either way, it works. (The video is embedded below, but if it doesn’t work, just click here to go to the youtube page.)

Here’s what we learn about this season’s charmers. One girl can’t read maps. There will be at least one scene in which everyone drinks in a hot tub. And, yes, there will be a stage-five clinger who says “we” too soon. Will there also be a muscle-bound douchebag who sticks it in every hole he can access, or a whiny peacemaker type who leaves the show early as punishment for making sense? I think we all know what the answer is to that question.

At first I wondered why such generically attractive people would need to humiliate themselves like this for the sake of finding love . . . buuuuut, then again, anyone who would ever consider going on this kind of show probably tends to be a turn-off. If you’re ever on a first date and you find yourself thinking this person would be a perfect stock reality TV character, it’s best to end the night quickly.

In short, Survivor of Blind Temptation of the Amazing Bachelor in the Wild Factor of Love promises to be a hot, hot mess. Anyone going to bother watching? Or should we just write it off now?

About

Jess Chapman, one of our first Canadian recappers, joined TVgasm in 2011 to expand her repertoire of online snark. By day, she is currently unemployed and looking for work in the communications industry. By night, in addition to tearing crappy TV shows and movies limb from limb, she runs a daily blog on U.S. politics (872 consecutive posts and counting!), hoping one day to move to the Twin Cities and work as a centrist political commentator. She is also a founding member of Winnipeg's RiffTrax Appreciation Club and a baker of many delicious cakes.

4 Comments

  1. 1
    sweetleaf
    Posted June 24, 2011 at 1:49 pm

    Welcome Jaycee! Your writing is def cynical enough to be enjoyable… looking forward to reading more. I probably will not watch but I will read your recaps…probably.

  2. 2
    Tadow
    Posted June 24, 2011 at 2:44 pm

    I plan on watching at least the first episode, if I can ever figure out when it starts

  3. 3
    someguy
    Posted June 24, 2011 at 9:49 pm

    same as sweetleaf good luck

  4. 4
    Tee
    Posted June 25, 2011 at 9:06 am

    “Terminally single men and women” … funny. Got to see whether the show bears this out. Love in the Wild series could be a fantastic summer blockbuster if they have integrated the Costa Rican “Pura Vida” locations and romance into the mix – remains to be seen – but I’m waiting!

    Cheers, Tee

    Tee is senior editor of Love In the Wild Fans Magazine http://www.LoveInTheWildFansMag.com and Costa Rica Magazine http://www.CostaRicaCLOSEUP.com.

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