I meant to give a heads up on Joe Schmo 2 yesterday, but I forgot. I saw it in the listings for two straight hours, and thought they were doing a 2 hour premiere or something. Silly me - Spike just aired the same episode twice. Turns out that I could have watched the end of the football game anyway - not that it mattered much.
So, my take on it - it’s not bad. I seem to remember JS1 taking a couple of episodes to hit it’s stride, so hopefully it gets better - from the preview clips, it seems like it might. They didn’t show a lot of interaction between the characters and the Schmos, but what they did show was kind of interesting. Tim seems like he’s going to be endlessly entertained by the absurd characters that he’s surrounded by - he kind of latched onto Gerald early as one of the more “real” characters. I kind of get the feeling that Ingrid saw/heard about Joe Schmo, and is on her guard against it. It doesn’t help that there are a lot of similarities between the sets (even down to the logo at the eviction ceremony.) I was missing a certain “you’re dead to us” quality though. We’ll see how it plays out in the coming weeks.
Simpson’s quote of the day: “First some ground rules. Number one, we get bathroom breaks every half-hour.” - Lionel Hutz- 1 comment
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JS2 was pretty good I thought! The characters didn’t really listen to the director though, they are out of control out of the gate. The fact that Jonovision guy was about the only person (he and the girl playing the bitch) who is easing into the role indicate that the other folks are a bunch of hacks. One episode in and Jane Schmo is talking about how the show feels like the Truman Show. I’m interested to see how they save that one…
As for the “dead” quality, the line at eviction was pretty good… This is from the website… I admit I was almost on the ground at the whole “pearl necklace” thing. My girl Katherine couldn’t believe it when I told her what it meant…
“Finally, we reach the end of the episode where a woman is to be sent home. Now, last year we had a ‘you’re-dead-to-us, plate-smashing, side-splitting-eviction-ceremony ‘that is admittedly hard to top. Yet, believe or not, I think we did. Ladies and Gentleman I welcome you to the first Pearl-Necklace eviction ceremony. That’s right, the women of the Last Chance for Love house aren’t hoping to receive a rose. No, they are hoping, praying, and practically begging for Austin to give them a pearl necklace. If you think that’s funny, you should see how hard Tim was laughing every time Derek repeated pearl necklace in his lofty British accent. “
Comment by Jon — Wednesday, June 16,2004 @ 1:35 pm