Joe Millionaire: For Richer or Poorer

I went into this thinking typical Bachelor premise/trash TV - ESPECIALLY because it's by some of the same people that did Jersey Shore, but I was pleasantly surprised. Reality TV is always a spectrum of being contrived to flat out scripted, but I did feel a certain level of genuineness from this after a certain point. I liked how even though there was drama, there was a good amount of comradery especially among the two "Joes". I liked the occasional "breaking the 4th wall" moments. I feel like they actively looked at many of the things wrong with this genre and improved on some of it. My best recommendation is push through to episode 3ish, after that they seemed to get their own show voice. I think if you like reality TV, there's no reason why you wouldn't enjoy this show. If they do a season 2, I would watch it.

Title should be Caroline looking for new baby daddy. I enjoyed the 1st Joe Millionaire and glad to see they rebooted it. From the get go this person was clearly not there for love, but for a new baby daddy. She was constantly causing trouble and the one was taken with her for the wrong reasons. His "other" body part kept her around for too long. She was manipulative, bossy and very rude. During family night, her gay best friend, another man was her guest. Where is your mom, dad or siblings? So now the guy has to contend with a kid, ex and now male best friend. The producers should have a rule, no baby mommas. It was better than I thought and loved the home they were in. But, it shows men that women only are interested in money.

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.

Here's a thought, Hollywood. Try glorifying good people for being good people and not worrying about their wallet size? You do know you're completely responsible for the culture we have today which is not good, right? You should be ashamed of this crap you put on TV now.

It is a semi fresh taste on the reality dating competition show (still hate that that's a phrase). I'd rather watch this than season 40 of the bachelorette. It offers enough new to the genre to be worth a watch.