Temptation Island

If the Fox network hired 40 hot women and men for the sole purpose of tempting one partner into screwing their brains out, didn't they really hire twenty prostitutes?

What do they consider infidelity... kissing someone else, a petting session, or full-bore sexual intercourse?

It looks like Fox ran out of When Animals Attack episodes. Now we're subjected to When Hormones Attack. This does not restore my faith in humanity.

Apparently Matt Groening was not just being silly. This new show reveals that FOX is, in fact, turning into a sleazy sex channel. And the prostitution thing occured to me too. Should the FOX executives be arrested for soliciting prostitution?

Worse than that, this show is just cruel. One of the people on one of the commercials says he just thought it was a game. Is FOX deceiving people? Can these people now sue them for ruining their relationship?

FOX, can't you think of anything better to do with your time? The best show you've got is constantly making fun of you! Bart and Homer sit there watching "When Surgery Goes Wrong" and other such filth. I think there's a message here.

I heard this show described as "Reality Television," I felt the need to rant.

Does the American public even know the meaning of the word "reality" anymore?!

1: These situations are contrived. So you're not getting the "real world," you're getting a fake stage world.

2: These people volunteered to be on the show, specifically. So you're not getting "real people," you're getting the kinds of people who volunteer to be in contrived situations on TV.

3: This premise in particular is infantile and poorly-thought-out. I mean, really, are we going to see loyal and loving couples? Heck no! We're going to see a bunch of people who secretly want out of their relationships so they can shack up with one (or more) of the many professional models who populate "Temptation Island." I can't even seriously believe that Fox would even tolerate, let alone prefer, more than one wholesome All-American apple-pie church-picnic couple on the damn island. The audience wants sex and scandal and gossip; the network execs will want that, too, because it means ratings and ratings means profits. And I seriously suspect it's what at least one-half, minus one-half of two (because hey, there's always that one hopeful couple that redeems your faith in humanity or whatever), of the "contestants" really want.

In the end, though, it doesn't even really matter whether the couples stay together or not. This show gives the viewers the impression that this kind of "trial by poison" of one's relationship is normal or even admirable. It is not. It is straight out of junior high.

We really can't blame Fox for having sunk so "low," though. Hell, somebody had to go there, if only in the name of radicalism. You know, now we can really say we've done everything that can possibly be done.