TOWIE - A Love Child of Sorts

Surely no show treats its audience as idiots more than TOWIE, but, then again, perhaps no audience deserves to be treated as idiots more than the TOWIE audience. 

I'm taking it that this is the next series from Marbs, or did I blink and miss a couple? Because all of a sudden people that were at each others throats, Arg and Gemma, are now at different parts of each others anatomy. Perhaps it is my fault for not slavishly following these bozos on Twitter and in the magazines. Well, Gemma and Arg are together and there was an inordinate amount of time spent discussing the size of Arg's Johnson, but let's leave that there. That wasn't the only change, Lucy and Sam have fallen out over Mario's alleged cheating (yet again my lack of Twitter has been my downfall.) Trouble is I can't remember if they were actually friends in the first place; and by friends I mean TOWIE friends, which is basically who the producers are throwing together in any particular series. On the comic side, Mario's appearance has changed yet again, this time out he looks like a third on the bill magician at Butlins.

Every episode of TOWIE has to have a do of some sort, and at that do, there must be a row. So Sam and Joey turned up at Mario and Lucy's engagement party, even though, as Sam so quaintly put it, she was 'N.F.I.', but that stops no one in the TOWIE universe. So, as you would expect, there was a lot of shouting between the quartet and Joey seemed to be acting like Danny Dyer's character in The Business, perhaps the scriptwriters had seen the film the night before. Anyway, another TOWIE episode ended like every other TOWIE episode, oh, and by the way, in case you have forgot, these people are real.

Now that  Geordie Shore is firmly with us TOWIE seems like Downton Abbey up against Vicky, Charlotte and the crew. While I believe TOWIE is 'tightly' scripted, I find it hard to believe Geordie Shore is, that would be like scripting a chimps tea party, all you do with that lot is send them to a club and watch them do exactly what they always do. But TOWIE seems to have moved away from that sort of thing and has become  the love child of Crossroads and El Dorado.

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