If you read my previous article entitled More to Exploit, you know that I was skeptical about the Fox network’s motives when it comes to their new show More to Love. My initial fears were fully realized last night while within the first five minutes of the premier. The premier essentially consisted of the 20 ‘contestants’ meeting the “big” winner Zack (pun intended..) and Zack trying to figure out which girls he wanted to keep around and which ones he was going to get rid of.
Zack himself seems like an opportunist rather than someone who is looking for love. In one scene (which was most likely edited this way) he was discussing how hard it would be for him to choose the women who would be going home, and in the very next breath implied that if the girl sitting with him would make out with him it would really help her chances of staying.
Throughout the show the focus shifted rapidly between what was going on in the house and private interviews with the women. One thing is for sure, they intentionally edited the potentially hundreds of hours of interviews to maximize the pathetic and socially inept factor of the plus sized women. At least two of them admitted that they had never been on a single date before and several of the women were in tears while describing their past experience while trying to find love.
FOX doesn’t seem to be doing the image of plus sized women any favors here, and if anything More to Love will most likely work to reinforce the stereotypes of plus sized women as being desperate, emotionally damaged, inept, and destined to be perpetually lonely.
From a purely entertainment standpoint, so far the show is just passable. FOX most likely put this show in the off-season because they knew that it wasn’t interesting enough to debut during the primetime fall season. I hope the first episode is not a indication of what is to come, because if it gets any more negatively skewed I would expect to start hearing cartoon like sound effects.
Drew