Archive for the 'Movie/TV Relationships' Category

Reality Dating Shows from Hell

Tuesday, April 16th, 2013

Are you bored with reality dating shows yet? Have The Bachelor and The Bachelorette become so predictable that you are itching for something that is more outside the box, edgy, and unpredictable? Dating in the Dark, More to Love, Take Me Out, and The Cougar just didn’t have the spice you were hoping for? […]

Bachelor Nation

Wednesday, March 6th, 2013

It’s been reported that The Bachelor reality dating show is having a resurgence. Apparently viewers are tuning back in and there are many “Bachelor” viewing parties in which groups of women (and men too) watch together and critique the show, cast, story line and most importantly, the choices made at each rose ceremony.
Of course, […]

The newest “Bachelor” demonstrates diversity

Sunday, January 20th, 2013

Any regular viewers of The Bachelor/Bachelorette are familiar with the mix of contestants that the lucky guy or girl gets to choose from. They are Caucasian, good looking, in shape, a mix of different professions or career paths- and there are always a few with outsized or outrageous personalities and one African American, Asian, Indian […]

Catfish: The TV Show’s take on online dating deceit

Wednesday, December 12th, 2012

This sequel to the documentary Catfish, is a new “dating” show on MTV that approaches people who are in a “Catfish” situation — which is one in which they are wondering why an intimate and long -term online friend doesn’t want to meet face to face — and arranges a first meeting.
The encounters that […]

Jason and Molly from “The Bachelor” are expecting

Friday, October 12th, 2012

Jason Mesnick and Molly Malaney Mesnick who met and fell in love on “The Bachelor” several seasons ago are expecting their first child in the spring of 2013. They are one of the few couples who actually came away with happy love from the show- actually, after the show as Jason chose someone else the […]

Ana Steele is no submissive

Saturday, August 11th, 2012

Like many other folks, I’ve been reading the commentary by “experts” in the field of women’s rights, psychology, etc. on the trilogy, “Fifty shades of grey.” The consensus is that even though these books hold a very strong appeal for women, they are essentially romanticizing something dark and dangerous, especially for teens and young women. […]

Does “Girls” portray a new relationship normal?

Sunday, April 1st, 2012

HBO is coming out with a new series titled “Girls,” that is a little bit “Sex and the City,” a little bit “Looking for Mr. Goodbar,” and a little bit “50 Shades of Grey.” It features a single, professional and sexually open Brooklyn woman who engages in submissive, depersonalized, demeaning sex- all the while talking […]

Friends with benefits

Sunday, August 7th, 2011

For years, many people have been engaging in casual sex with people they know. There are the folks who are divorced yet get together sexually from time to time. There are the exes who were never married and find that even though they don’t want to marry this person, the sex is nice and convenient. […]

Ashley chooses JP

Wednesday, August 3rd, 2011

I confess- I was routing for Ben. They shared physical attraction, friendship, intellectual stimulation, humor and comfort with one another. These are the elements of chemistry, and they had them- however, Ashley felt these elements (or one or two of them) were stronger with JP. She went with her heart. I hope in the long […]

Ames- Ashley’s forever “Bachelor that got away”

Tuesday, July 19th, 2011

She was smitten with Bentley. She listened to William about Ben C. and didn’t give him a rose. She keeps focusing on her “type” which is a “big guy with long hair.” She emphasizes the hair a lot. I’m seeing a dangerous pattern…
After many interviews in which Ashley talked about how intelligent, funny and […]