"You, Me, and My Ex" is Adding to the Dumbening of Us All

20th Century Fox

I have talked about a good amount of shows I have watched on TLC.

It is painful.

TLC used to be a real channel. It used to legitimately teach people things. I would watch stuff on TLC and feel like I was actually learning. It was like school. Now TLC is just a cesspool of ridiculous reality TV. And yes, I still watch. I am getting a bit bored by some of the shows my wife and I watch. "90 Day Fiance" is becoming way too repetitive. So are the offshoot shows from the "90 Day" world. Another wild show we watch is "Seeking Sister Wife", where a married couple is looking to add another wife, which is surprisingly boring. I also find myself getting openly mad at the people on these shows. They are the worst of the worst in reality TV. They are starved for attention, and TLC is giving them an avenue to act like the wild and gross people they are.

The most recent show my wife had me sit down to watch takes the absolute crap cake. I wrote a while back about a show TLC had called "Hot and Heavy" that was nuts, this new show is worse. There have been things like "Sex Sent me to the ER" and "My 600 lb Life" that are flat out dumb. But this new show, "You, Me and my Ex", is the absolute worst reality show I have ever seen. This is the most scripted, contrite and stupid thing. When we watched the pilot, which will be the only episode I watch, I said to my wife that I wish I was a fly on the wall when this show was pitched. I wanted to see how wild that room was. I wanted to see if they just figured that fans of TLC will literally watch ANYTHING. I wanted to see if they all laughed. I wanted to see the people at TLC that actually think this show was a good idea. I wanted to be there for it all. I wish the higher ups at TLC would think about new shows, for at least five minutes, before greenlighting everything.

The "premise" of this show is about a few couples that live with their exes. Pretty straight forward. But then there is all this added drama. The fights are all very fake. The people on the show clearly just want to be on TV, to be seen. Their stories are insane. The fact that anyone would allow this to happen, and then film it, is crazy. I cannot believe it. I would never, ever want to live with one of my wife's exes. So I sure as hell would not want it filmed either. And the way this show tries to make us feel bad for the people on this show, I mean it is the most cliché thing I have seen. One guy had a bad illness, another couple broke up because they cheated on each other and the final couple is a bisexual guy with his former boss. It is so cliché, so hackey and so stupid. Watching this show I kept thinking about the principal's speech in "Happy Gilmore". You all know the one. Where he says, "all of us listening to you are all now dumber", that's the speech I'm talking about. That is how I felt during "You, Me and my Ex". I felt pretty god damn stupid after watching. I was not engaged or enlightened. I did not learn anything. I was just annoyed and angry.

This show is terrible and I do not recommend anyone watch it. I would also like TLC to go back and try to do something, anything that teaches their viewers. I'm sure they won't, but one can hope.

Ty

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