Shot at Love with Tila Tequila, A: Complete Uncensored First Season (DVD)

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The show's producers obviously handpicked the contestants to be as cute, handsome, and eccentric as possible. Let's just say that none of these men or women is exactly the type you'd want as role models for your children.

It's hard to think of anything good to say about a program like this, and the only question it raises in my mind is why anyone with an intelligence level higher than a sardine would want to watch it. As I say, it's mainly about ogling girls (and possibly guys), but beyond that, there is nothing here. As the episodes go on, we notice a touch of emotional involvement among the characters, since they often fight or argue, but it's so little, it's negligible.

"A Shot at Love with Tila Tequila" is essentially soft-core trash, and I'm sure its producers intended it exactly that way. It's shallow, cheap, cheesy, tawdry, tasteless, and totally idiotic, which is probably what its viewers want, but, worse, it's boring. The box says it's the "uncensored" first season, suggesting that MTV is thinking of yet another set of episodes and that the channel must have left something out when they aired the first season on TV. The DVDs contain a few profanities, sexual situations, and sparse clothing, but no real sex or nudity. So, what's left?

Video:
Paramount offer the show in its original 1.33:1 standard-ratio television format, and, no surprise, it looks like a typical television broadcast. There are good, bright colors, but the image is slightly soft and blurred. My guess is that the producers filmed the program digitally because it has that flat, mildly low-key digital look to it.

Audio:
Although the box indicates the sound is in Dolby Digital 2.0 stereo, most of it sounds like plain old monaural to me. Like the video quality, the sound is typical of what one expects from modern television shows. It's clear and clean in the midrange, which is all that matters because the show is all talk, and limited everywhere else.

Extras:
The final disc in the set contains the extras, which include fifty-three minutes of extended footage, thirty-five minutes of deleted scenes, and previews of four other dreadful TV shows. The additional footage includes scenes with titles like "Girls Cat Walk," "Guys in Heels," "Foam Party," "Car Wash," "Spin the Bottle," "Waxing," and "Strip Club," so you get the idea. The discs also include episode selections and English as the only spoken language.

Parting Shots:
The contestants on "A Love at Love with Tila Tequila" are supposedly in their twenties, but they behave like twelve-year-olds. This is television at its worst, appealing to the lowest (and basest) common denominator. If the producers had condensed the whole series into a single two-hour special, it might have had some minor allure for oglers of girls and guys, but at 424 minutes it's pure torture.