Made In Chelsea- Not the Sloany way.

I couldn’t bring myself to watch the latest episode of Made In Chelsea. I saw the first two and that was enough for me. Maybe I’m judging too soon but from what I’ve already seen, it looks like a truly awful show filled with truly awful people.

I can see what channel 4 had in mind when they created this show. I’m guessing they were hoping for a mixture of The Hills and The Only Way Is Essex, but unfortunately they failed miserably on both counts. MIC is nothing like either of those shows. It doesn’t have the likable characters that made The Hills so successful and it doesn’t have the hilarious characters that makes TOWIE the best reality show out at the moment.

Plus it’s all so complicated. There are too many people and too many story lines going on at once. A show like this needs to start off simple, introduce a main likeable character with a main story arc and build the show around them. But Channel 4 over thought it and have started off as if we’re already on season 6. In the first (and only episode I’ve seen) people were bitching about each other, girls were sleeping with other peoples boyfriends, relationships were breaking up and oh and to top things off there was a gay guy who’s pretending to be straight. It was all too much. There were more shenanigans in one episode of MIC then there was in a whole season of The Hills, and even if there wasn’t it wouldn’t matter because frankly we’ve seen it all before. There is nothing special about this show that sets it apart from the others and no one on it is likeable or funny enough to make people want to tune in or add it to their schedule.

The other problem is that during times of a recession, nobody wants to see these people flouncing up and down the Kings Road. I don’t want to spend my Monday night after I’ve been at work all day watching an heir to a diamond mine set up social events, or watch an Eton old boy cheat on his girlfriend. And I definitely don’t want to see a girl with nicer hair then me drink Gin and Tonic and talk about what a mess her love life is in. That’s not entertainment, it’s depressing.

Anyway it’s all relative as I can’t see the Sloany lot sticking around for long. During the very first episode, Twitter was going crazy for Made In Chelsea. Everyone was watching it, everyone was talking about it. But two weeks on and it’s a completely different story. It seems everyone had the same idea as me and stopped watching after one episode. Nobody seems to care about them. They aren’t even being papped, or they are and nobody is buying the pictures. There isn’t one story about them on the Mail Online and that’s saying something because they’ll write about anyone!

It’s not that channel 4 have jumped on the band wagon too late. Geordie Shore started last night and you can tell that’s going to be brilliant. It’s just that they got it completely wrong. And to rub salt in the wound Channel 4 won’t be showing Glee next year so they can concentrate on making home grown shows such as this. Fantastic.

P.S – If you’ve seen Made In Chelsea then go to YouTube and Google Gap Yah. You won’t be disappointed.