Let me just state from
the outset that the premise of the show is rubbish. It is not about
finding Bret Michaels true love any more than Big Brother is about who 'plays the game' best. The fact that this show is now in its third season proves its cynicism.
So, let's just call shenanigans on that right away. But oh-my it's entertaining!
Rock of Love
is evasive about exactly what a relationship with Bret Michaels
entails. It's deliberately vague about which of the girls he has
already slept with, and it's positively opaque about whether or not
he's looking for a monogamous relationship.
The few girls that
try to call him on his shit (notably the straight edge Samantha,
dismissed as being 'too fragile' because she actually has the emotional
maturity to question him) get treated by the show like they are alien
for having any kind of healthy skepticism about shacking up with the
man who decided that "Unskinny bop nothing more to say" was a
publishable lyric.
The ultimate irony, of course, is that Bret Michaels at no point demonstrates why he is supposedly such a catch.
There
is nothing inherently interesting about him aside from what you could
already glean from his bio: 80s rockstar, sex tape with Pamela
Anderson, has diabetes (which he pronounces 'die-ah-beat-us').
There is a couple of ways to look at a show like Rock of Love.
On the one hand, it's clearly designed to get the craziest chicks and
gold-diggers in one house and let the catfights begin (it's cynical and
nasty how they parade these poor, clueless idiots before us).
On the other hand, who else is going to audition for this kind of show?
Bret
Michaels says he's looking for love, but he's in such a state of
arrested development emotionally that the only way he can interpret
love is if it's in the form of these surgically enhanced, alcoholic
slappers.
It's very easy to think of these contestants as
being damaged and exploited (and a few girls who get eliminated early
on do seem to be legitimately mentally challenged) but that's denying
them agency and ownership over their behaviour.
Sure, they're
doing pretty terrible things, but let them have that moment to shine in
the glow of those terrible things. You know that if they live to be 60
they'll probably regret starting drunken fist fights; and it will
embarrass their children when they see their mother's knickers barely
cloaking her aging backside, but allow them that humiliation.
They chose to be there.
So if they want to do it, I'm bloody watching it. DVD EXTRAS
There are four discs here, filled with episodes of a program most
would like to see have sent to the four corners of the earth an
destroyed. So the fact that there are no Extras on this release could actually be considered a good thing.
Conclusion:
Movie 50% Extras: N/A
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