It’s not often that I feel strongly enough about a television product to elicit a comment by my mouth and fingers in typing form, but Comedy Central’s new show “Secret Girlfriend” has truly gotten my hackles up.
See that banner? You already know this show sucks, right? Well. Wait, let me backtrack a bit. If you’ve never heard of Secret Girlfriend – and you’re lucky that you haven’t, the premise is this: It’s a zany, horny, beer soaked romp through the main character’s life as he tries to escape the clutches of his psycho ex-girlfriend (or is he ?), all while trying to secure the affections of the sporty, beer-loving, cute, understanding, and essentially perfect (aka essentially fictional) other girl, ALL WHILE HIS BROSEPHS COMMIT TOTALLY CRAZY ANTICS!!! A totally original premise, never before seen in the history of television or movies.
| But wait, there’s more! You missed the ultimate twist! The main character is YOU!!!! HOLY SHIIIIIIIIT!!!!! That’s right! The whole show is shot in 1st person “you-are-the-camera” view! And since you’re a totally rad, cute, gnarly main character, every girl swoons at your appearance, and you love to ogle every girl’s exposed parts! And here lies the real genius; since it’s the main character eyeballing girl’s junk and not you the viewer, you don’t have to feel guilty about it coz the main character is just a guy, AMIRITE?!?! |
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And actually, a reviewer over at Time.com put it really well last week:
When You, through the camera, check out a bunch of girls’ asses at a convenience store, or at a party, or at a lesbian bar, or underwater in a pool, you’re not being cheaply titillated, you are participating in a sly comedy of manners. It’s funny, because guys like to check out girls’ asses! And also, you get to check out girls’ asses! How droll! How metafictional! Look at the comic irony on those knockers!
MAN I wish I could use big words like metafictional. Anyway. The show is terrible, unfunny, tries so very hard to be Benny Hill meets Girls Gone Wild and fails on virtually every level. Hard. 50% of the time the horrible acting and “talking to the camera as you” manner of dialog reminded me very strongly of the very shitty Sega CD full motion video games of old, like Night Trap or something. Good GOD it’s bad.
And the website for the show has a “Brobonics Dictionary” which I will not dignify the existence of with a link. As a successful web series, relegated to the likes of Youtube and Atom, I have no problem with it. It sucked enough for the internet, but even for Comedy Central I draw the line. Fortunately it’s only supposed to be on for six episodes, and then we can go back to high quality programming that we’re used to seeing on Comedy Central, like the smash hit Chocolate News (unfortunately was not renewed).
“Secret Girlfriend” is one of the worst shows I have ever seen. It is hard to believe that Comedy Central actually paid for this series to be produced. However, the production values are so low that maybe Comedy Central can turn a profit even if the ratings are horrible?
More than likely, sure. I’m sure they’ll grab enough 19 y/o eyeballs to justify the cost and probably turn a profit, fortunately this abomination only has a six episode run and I highly doubt it’ll return for another “season,” seeing as how there’s basically nothing else for them to do with the show.
I second that