My first complaint about Baby Borrowers --
a new reality show in which five teenage couples care for the babies of
a few morons who rented them out to NBC -- is that it's just bad television. If you're going to make a reality series about abandoned children, at least make it interesting.
Choose
a grittier locale. Get a furry dog. A bald rich guy. A cute little
orphan with red hair and maybe some catchy Broadway numbers about what
a hard knock life it is but that somehow, tomorrow maybe, the sun will
come out. Oh wait, that sounds familiar in some odd,
distant way. But you get the picture.
Baby Borrowers
is not entertainment. It's dregs from the writer's strike -- brought
forth during the summer TV doldrums to either sink or swim.
Let us hope it sinks.
Because my second complaint has to do with the aforementioned morons.
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