Review: Fox's new reality show LaborOfLove is pleasantly low-key
,” a show whose relationship to its premise is less urgent than its desire to provide humorous uplift in the form of vicarious embarrassment. No pleasure is truly guilty, but this may come close; that it’s a pleasure all the same, though, is all an entertainment-starved viewer may need to hear.
The show nominally revolves around Kristy, a woman who we’re told has achieved at a high level in her professional life but who yearns to be a parent. But the real action, as is typical for the genre, happens among the suitors the show has chosen for her; these include a couple people who appear engaged with her and the process, and several more who vaguely want to be on TV, get free drinks, and see where the camera time takes them.
The idea underpinning the whole show, here, is flicked at rather than deeply and meaningfully engaged; appearances by the competitors’ own parents explaining how good these men would be at fatherhood are more notable for the simple curiosity factor than for any sort of real imparting of information.
“Labor of Love” is pleasantly low-key — especially, too, by comparison to the current market leader, “The Bachelor,” which, comes without any of “Labor of Love’s” higher-stakes framework about specifically choosing a co-parent, still manages to treat its machinations as deeply and gravely serious.
In all, though, the show manages to keep an upbeat tone without veering too far towards gross-out or towards faux-seriousness. This would probably not be a show worth watching in a moment when distraction didn’t feel quite so sorely needed, but right now, seeing suitors react to phony bear attacks and to little bits of one-upsmanship feels buoyant and worthwhile enough.
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