Joe Millionaire: For Richer or Poorer

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.

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.

Thoroughly entertaining watch. In this series, it seems that both men are successful, with one having an edge over the other. Bottom line, Steven is totally hot and that's enough for me to turn in on a weekly basis!

This reality TV show is similar to "The Bachelor": a bevy of beauties vie for the attentions of a man looking for love and marriage. But here there are two bachelors, and one of them is rich.

The central conceit has to do with the motivations and interests of the women. Are they looking for love or money?

The primary asset of this series is the bachelors themselves, who are both likable. They do not seem like "players". One is a rancher and the other has a construction company.

Viewers know which man has the money, but the women only know that one is worth $10,000,000.

Though the season is early, I like where this is headed.

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.