Considering America’s love affair with fame-whores, actresses playing whores, scandals involving whores, and reality television, it’s curious that it took so long for a reality show featuring whores in competition (excluding VH1 celebrity dating shows, HBO’s Cat House, and Playboy channel dating shows) to come to comedic fruition. This clever satire is the sliced bread of the reality world - some ideas are so appropriate, so seemingly obvious, that you’ll wonder why it took so long for comedy writers to pen it. Whorified! The Search For America’s Next Top Whore is a parody which bills itself as an “edgy send-up of reality TV and its often irresponsible-seeming creators,” and (mostly) delivers on its promise. The premiere episodes are stellar, though competing story lines and angry characters somehow lessen the laughs as the subsequent episodes progress. Still, the series is indeed edgier and more cleverly written...
- 5/20/2009
- by Anne Polsky
- Tilzy.tv
You know that web television has made it when they beat the Bravo to the punch on a new reality show. On second thought, when that new reality show is AcuteTV's Whorified! The Search for America's Next Top Whore, Bravo probably passed on it a year ago. Creators Ann Marie Lindbloom and Jeff Venables arrived on the web series scene last year with Two Peas in Your Pod, which made Forbes Magazine called one of the Top 15 indie series on Veoh. Whorified! is a tongue-in-cheek reality show that adopts the conventions found in reality TV stapes like America's Next Top Model, Project Runway, and Top Chef for a new show based around, well, the world's oldest profession. The promo was posted about a year ago - looks like this show has been a long time in coming before its premiere on May 1st, setting the stage for drama, pitting businesswomen,...
- 5/11/2009
- by Pat Miller
- Tubefilter.com
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