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TV Review: 'Farmer Wants a Wife'Remember when cynical, all-out assaults on what was good and right about Western culture at least had the virtue of not being utterly boring?
BY DAVID KRONKE >TV CRITIC
Remember when cynical, all-out assaults on what was good and right about Western culture at least had the virtue of not being utterly boring? “Farmer Wants a Wife,” The CW’s latest lazily conceived reality series, scarcely bothers to conceal its “Bachelor” -covered-in-fertilizer derivativeness, and underscores the fact that the network is genetically incapable of avoiding condescension toward its viewers. Unlike the farmer’s chickens, the egg this show lays is rotten from the start. Matt, our small-town farmer in question, is an affable, gentlemanly fellow who looks a little like a younger version of former White House press secretary Tony Snow, so you pity him for his agreeing to participate in what Woody Allen would have called “a travesty of a mockery of a sham of a mockery of a travesty of two mockeries of a sham.” When he’s introduced to the big-city contestants who are vying, if not to be his wife then at least to get the most camera time, he putters up to them on a tractor, shirtless, to their clearly manufactured whoops and squeals. From the outset, though, it’s obvious that the producers had little to no interest in casting women who might accommodate him or his lifestyle. He could’ve easily culled the field of 10 down to about four in tonight’s episode alone. Immediately, the story editors home in on Josie, an Orange County resident who is not only powerfully deluded as to what a catch she is, but is remarkably obnoxious to all around her, as well. That she’s not the first woman ousted is but one sign of the apparent behind-the-scenes manipulation that’s afoot here: The producers clearly wanted to keep her around to ratchet up the tension and ensure that the other contestants and any viewers that stick around after tonight’s installment would remain in a constant state of misery. Among other things, Josie asks if the women’s rustic accommodations include maid service, suggests that Matt isn’t wealthy enough for her tastes and refuses to participate in the first low-budget challenge, wrangling chickens. “No respectable woman is going to chase chickens,” she sniffs. Another contestant, Stefanie, a Los Angeles jeweler, betrays a similarly hilarious fowl-phobia, timorously bleating, “I’m afraid of them pecking my eyes out!” Stef, Stef if you sit through an episode of this show, you’ll be praying for your eyes to be pecked out. David Kronke, (818) 713-3638 david.kronke@dailynews.com www.insidesocal.com/tv/ Photo retrieved from http://thehive.modbee.com/?q=node/1934  I didn't see the show but i saw the commercial for it. I can't believe those women would be dumb enough to wear high heels to a farm. As Doctor Phil would say What were they thinking? Posted 05/01/08 09:47AM PDT by Teresa Valle
I hate the sound of this show... they should feed this slop to the pigs at the farm they filmed it Posted 04/30/08 03:02PM PDT by m-dino
I hate the sound of this show... they should feed this slop to the pigs at the farm they filmed it Posted 04/30/08 03:02PM PDT by m-dino
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