TV Review: The Two Coreys - Season Two
Published June 20, 2008
There's reality TV and then there's "reality" TV. The latter category is more forced, less real. Situations are far more manipulated, the people in front of the cameras are actors, and outcomes are (or feel) far more predetermined.
The Two Coreys, is about to begin its second season on A&E, and most definitely falls into the latter category. Following the present-day exploits of momentary '80s teen heartthrobs Corey Haim and Corey Feldman, the show jumps from one contrived moment to the next, and appears to have nary a care for what is "real."
The show begins six months after the first season finished, with Haim and Feldman not having spoken to each other during the whole time (we're told). The two are due to have their first meeting, really a confrontation, at a deli, and things appear to not be headed in the right direction. From there, the first episode backtracks to explain how it is that Haim and Feldman find themselves sitting down in the diner, what happened over the course of the past two days (despite their not speaking to each other for six months) to bring them to that point.
There's no particular reason for the story to be told in that fashion, but it's interesting enough. The bigger problem is that the show never really gets into what happened to bring the two men to this point. The audience sees that they're not speaking, but the near fisticuffs of the first season's finale are missing.
Even that, however, is forgivable. It's clear enough that the two had a serious falling out. What makes the episode so odd is that the multiple times we see the scene in the diner, or the bits and pieces of it, it unfolds somewhat differently. The conversation doesn't actually happen the same way each time we see snippets of it. Clearly the conversation is highly edited, and highly edited in different ways each time it is shown. Most assuredly reality shows involve a large amount of editing, but if a single conversation is to be shown repeatedly throughout an episode, it is hugely disconcerting when it doesn't occur in the same way.
- TV Review: The Two Coreys - Season Two
- Published: June 20, 2008
- Type: Review
- Section: Video
- Filed Under: Video: Television, Video: Reality TV, Review
- Writer: Josh Lasser
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Awesome, I'll make sure to watch this. I loved season one, rarely do you find such stupid, cheeseball TV shows as this one, and the fact that it stars Feldman and Haim makes it all the better.
I will say, it should be considered fiction, which of course makes it even more hilarious for how could one write such trite storylines and terrible dialogue. It's a work of genius!