Joe Millionaire: For Richer or Poorer

After watching the first seven episodes, it is clear that this show has forgotten what made the original such a success. Rather than serving up a funny parody of THE BACHELOR, JOE MILLIONAIRE: FOR RICHER OR POORER serves up what would be an inferior season of either JOE MILLIONAIRE or THE BACHELOR. Conceivably enough time has passed that the original concept might have worked one more season, but instead the program opted for a more serious and honest format that potentially could be repeated for additional seasons. With a real multimillionaire who is not as wealthy as the previous fakes pretended to be and a poorer guy who likely still has a six-figure income, the new program hardly serves up the love versus money dynamic of its predecessors. The humor of the original has been lost to the worst of reality television's melodramatics.