Chad Ocho Cinco joined the club of celebrities looking for love on national television. “OchoCinco:The Ultimate Catch” premiered Sunday on VH1. And for those of you how didn’t get a chance to see it, you didn’t miss much.
After three seasons of “Flava of Love” and two seasons of
For the Love of Ray J”, “The Ultimate Catch” looks like a desperate attempt by VH1 to keep the “love” shows alive throughout the summer when there’s nothing else on TV and they know people will tune in.
The show started out with 85 girls competing to be in the house. With the help of friends, football test and an evening ball, Chad was able to narrow down the number of girls in the house to 16. All I can say is that I was bored. I felt like I wasted an hour and ½ of my life. As usual, the women on the show were pretty, but lacked brain power. And the selection of women wasn’t very diverse either. As someone said on twitter “why didn’t Ochocinco just go to Cuba or PR to film the show? The colored girls on the show are just a formality.”
Rumors were going around months ago that Chad wasn’t really a fan of black girls being a part of his final 16. According to a member of the production staff, the final girls were pre-selected; after Chad’s disapproval and re-selection, the final group consists of Hispanics, whites and 2 Black girls. Now I’m sure no one is surprised that a group was already selected by the production staff. And while it’s disappointing there aren’t more black girls on the show, I think we’ve had enough on the previous “love” shows over the years that haven’t done us justice. And any educated, self respecting black woman wouldn’t be foolish enough to sign up for this show (at least I would hope so).
Like all the other shows, the women are “serious” about being with Chad and the show is overly dramatic already. Don’t they know he most likely has already signed a deal for Season 2, so the “ultimate catch” won’t really be with him after the show??
The show should be called “The Ultimate Groupie.”
I guess the one good thing about this show compared to the others is that the ladies aren’t being disrespected by being called some foolish, degrading nickname. For now that is…we’ll see what happens next week.
Sigh…
In the meantime, I’ll continue to watch The T.O.Show. It’s actually a good reality show on VH1. 10:30pm on Sundays.
Source: The YBF
