Apparently I’m not the only one who is simultaneously obsessed with and repulsed by a A Shot at Love with Tila Tequila. The folks over at AfterEllen/Logo are also somehow compelled to watch. In fact, they actually do a video blog about each episode, which makes me feel a little better. It’s also why I’ve come out of my personal myspace blog closet to actually post here.
It’s bad. It’s really bad. This “bisexual dating show” is hauling the queer community 20 steps backwards on so many levels. And all the girls are super nasty except for one, who I’m sure won’t last much longer. The guys are, of course, stereotypical, but even more than usual. They even have a super dumb and smarmy Italian guy. Wow, we haven’t seen that stereotype on national TV in awhile…but yeah, it’s like a seriously hilarious train wreck (continue the wrongness, I know), you can’t look away. It’s painful but makes me laugh so hard. It’s worse than meth…They should start some Merc ads…
There were really only 2 ladies even in the beginning that could have remotely been butch and the other one is already gone. Tila doesn’t isn’t usually “into butches” (surprise, surprise) but this girl, Dani, a firefighter, is the cutest on the show so maybe the real queers have a small shot…And I could go on about the specifics of the show and Episode 3, but the two ladies of Logo did it so well without me in their vlog. (But I do have to echo my disgust that all the contestants have to share a bed. Really that is just gross. And I have a fairly high tolerance for gross. It’s just wrong) I would, however, have added some much needed humor. These ladies have great points, and I fully support to DIY aesthetic they’re working with, but I think they needed to add some whiskey to those nondescript brown caffeinated beverages. Everything was almost funny, the vlog just needed a few more pals and a bit more alcohol for the Barbie re-enacted missing scene to induce true hilarity.
They could also have used some pictures of the ladies whose sexualities they questioned. Do you really think we can all remember who Brandi and Rebecca are? Oh you mean the one that managed to make out with two people, a guy and a girl, who are not Tila thereby “breaking her heart?” Well, why didn’t you say so. Now I know who you’re talking about.
Now these fellow bloggers have no desire to see a second “Shot at Tila” and I would tend to agree. It’s gotta get old and boring by the end of the show. But if you really want to be fresh and innovative, MTV, I do have a suggestion for you. Forget the bisexual Maxim models and dumb jocks and instead really go for the gold. Have a reality dating show that has no central character. Instead thrust a group of multi-queer, genderqueer, S&M aficionados, and all kinds of us wonderful occasionally polyamorous freaks into one house and just see who ends up with who. Oh wait, I guess all you really have to do is come to Portland with a camera…Just sayin’…
