If I did a shot every time the word, “real” was used on last night’s episode of Date My Ex — I would be dead from liver failure this morning.
I’m wondering if last night’s episode was scripted. It just felt too much like a south-of-the-boarder soap opera on telemundo. (You know,the ones Ugly Betty’s dad is addicted to.)
There were just so many long, pleading looks.
In case you missed it, this episode picked up where the last one left off with Chris storming off (He’s the sweet boy from Chicago who Jo says is really sexy. But maybe he just doesn’t photograph well, and maybe it’s a type of sexy you have to be there to see.) He grabs his bag, and says there were plenty of people in Chicago who love him and he’s going home.
For reasons I can’t understand, the other guy in the competition raced after him and convinced him to come back into the house. Jo said that Slade put her on the spot when he asked her out for a date, and she didn’t want to humiliate him, but if saying no to Slade was the only way that Chris would stay — then screw Slade.
But, she kind of lied. Because even though she promised Chris that she would not see Slade (and Slade sat around sulking the entire episode talking about his feelings) she agreed to meet Slade to talk. He brought her favorite salad from their favorite restaurant. And she realized that nobody knows her like Slade.
It’s just a salad.
He said he couldn’t even remember why they broke up. Slade, do you need a season one and two DVD? Did you not watch the show they made about your life and how you guys keep breaking up and getting back together. All of America knows why you guys broke up. She was not what you wanted her to be. She didn’t want to be what you wanted her to be. She left. You took her license plate off her car. You took her car. But for some reason, you couldn’t leave her be and decided to do this show. Was he hoping that she would go on a billion bad dates (like me) and then realize that he was the best she ever had, and then she would turn to him?
I knew Slade still liked her. But I was really hoping he was going to profess his love in a more interesting way. Like, by maybe hitting another guy. Versus calling them pussy-boy’s and grimacing a lot while wearing a scarf with his t-shirt.
Does Slade not have friends? No one at all who might say, ‘Hey man, this TV show is a really bad idea. Stop being a girl. And let her go.’
I hate that I like this show so much. I hate that it’s down to two guys. Jo didn’t eliminate anyone this week. And since we ended with Slade asking Jo if she still has feelings for him (and apparently she leaves town when he says that according to next week’s preview) then I guess they’re going to drag the show out a little bit longer. What’s next? If Jo and Slade get back together, I guess they could have their own show. Or, if they don’t, then I guess Jo could host the next season of Date My Ex. (But would any girls really want to date Slade? I think I might hit one of my friends if they said they were going out with him.)
