Isn't making your private life an integral part of your Synergistic Celebrity Juggernaut very old news, but still kind of grotesque? What constitutes too much information anymore? Do we really want to know Tori expelled gas during sex with her husband, actor Dean McDermott ? Doesn't that almost rival "Being Bobby Brown" when it comes to oversharing? No matter how info-maniacal we might be about the Spelling family wars, do we also want to hear Tori talking fondly about saving the dress she wore when she lost her virginity? And is McDermott's "I Knocked Up Donna Martin" T-shirt blasphemous?
Do you think Spelling and McDermott seriously want to run a bed -and- breakfast, or do you think they thought it would make a good reality show? Didn't they see Rob and Amber's forgettable "Against the Odds," which just as hokily made Rob into a professional poker player? Why is "Tori & Dean: Inn Love" so unoriginal? Isn't it just tedious at this point to watch "real" couples such as Trista and Ryan gush over each other and then have lovers' spats? Couldn't Spelling have followed up her wickedly enjoyable "So NoTORIous" with something similarly self-ironic and culty?
She doesn't think the shopping jokes on "Inn Love" are campy, does she? Could there be a more tired celeb-reality bit than the look-how-much-I-love-to-shop famous person? Are we really meant to believe Tori didn't script the lines, "Shopping is hard work. You should see the way couture makes me break a sweat"? And shouldn't it be funnier that she's out buying clothes the day before having an "estate sale" of knickknacks and "Beverly Hills 90210" kitsch to make money to buy the inn?
Is "Tori & Dean: Inn Love" just another banal, self-massaging reality show with a punny title? Or is it the height of basic cable reality entertainment? I just don't know anymore!
Matthew Gilbert can be reached at gilbert@globe.com. For more on TV, visit boston.com/ae/tv/blog.
