More To Love Or Hate in Fox's Plus-Sized Dating Show
Now that The Bachelorette is over, a new show featuring contrived romance needs to fill the void. Like clockwork, Fox drops in with More to Love, a plus-sized take on The Bachelor. Now that racial prejudice has been largely eradicated, American society is moving on to size discrimination, and More to Love is an unsteady stumble in that direction. Size 20 women everywhere UNITE!
More to Love [9 PM, Fox]
Luke Conley, a former football lineman and plus-sized bachelor meets 20 plus-size contestants at a cocktail party tonight and eliminates five of the. Emme, arguably the most famous plus-sized model ever, hosts the show, that should feature lots of statements like "I want a man to love me for me" and "big can be beautiful" and various other defiant expressions of self-esteem despite society's expectations. Don't worry, Fox will find a way to make this love fest all sorts of tawdry.
The Cosby Show: A Look Back [9 PM, Biography]
This is certainly not the first time this retrospective has aired, but it's still a great piece of infotainment about the most important family sitcom of our lifetime. Just thinking aloud, someone should make one of those weird reenactment movies about the backstage drama at The Cosby Show.
Chopped [10 PM, Food Network]
The surprise ingredients tonight are edamame and shrimp in the appetizers and flank steak in the entrees. Lately, the ingredients have been really tricky, which is good for challenging the contestants, but bad for those of us playing along at home. Food Network is all about making the viewer salivate and thus associate the brand with sense memories of tasty meals we have had, but no one wants to eat a dessert that involves marshmallows, pie crust, blood oranges and anchovy paste.
The Break-Up [8 PM, USA]
No one can fault USA for airing this film at least once a day for the last month because two-thirds of it is actually funny, with the other third being too raw for any couple with relationship problems to watch together. Jennifer Aniston and Vince Vaughn play the embattled couple, but John Michael Higgins and John Favreau are the real stars of the film. To say that they (especially Higgins) steal their scenes is a compliment to thieves everywhere.
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Frankly, I'm shocked that Fox didn't straight-up name the show Chubby Chasers.
I now have (even) Less to Watch.
Super-Size Me had already been taken.
Did Fat Bachelor run into trademark issues?
Same goes with Operation Dumbo Drop.
This show is so stupid. All the women do is talk about how fat they feel and cry about how they've never been loved. Those are real issues, but the way these ladies appear on tv is desperate, insecure, needy, and unconfident. The show is so annoying. Instead of the show being an "equal opportunity" reality show (which they should just put a variety of women on the real Bachelor instead of making a show for "fat people") its a show that gives all the girls but one a false sense of love and acceptance and make them look stupid.