An Awful Tidbit
Western Culture really is in decline
Over the last few months I’ve been researching and surveying the reality TV landscape. During my travels and travails through the genre I stumbled across what might be the worst television program ever produced: Couple to Throuple.
Check out this trailer:
If you find yourself intrigued, I can assure you the excitement won’t last.
All ten episodes of this cringe factory are shockingly humorless and abysmally edited. Every “reveal” is telegraphed and all the “drama” is clearly — and poorly — manufactured. Even the show’s “competition” elements fall flat, with losing singles facing no actual consequences and winning couples putting zero skin in the game — figuratively speaking.
You might be thinking: well, surely a ridiculous, salacious reality show would at least attract ridiculous, salacious contestants, right? Nope. Everyone on this show is a charisma vacuum, devoid of charm, mystery, even loathsomeness. The designated villains are, at best, catty, and, at worst, banal. And no matter how freaky-deaky people get, they’re never sexy.
Ultimately, Couple to Throuple’s creators made a TV show where a dozen horny humans engaged in multiple gender-fluid threesomes, and it was boring. Truly a new nadir for our species.
As for the broader concept of polyamory, I pass no judgements. Letting people do whatever they want with their lives is called freedom, and I’m a big fan of the idea.
That said, observers from around the interwebs have suggested this show’s depiction of polyamory is reductive and obtuse. I’ve disappointed one woman more than enough already, so I’ll take their word for it.
