Kourtney & Khloe Take Miami – The Complete First Season (2009/Lionsgate DVD Set)
Picture:
C+ Sound: C+ Extras: D Episodes: D
The
Kardashians, you either like them or you cannot stand them. There are enough fans to keep them on the
air, for better and definitely worse and so much so that there is now a spin
off of their Keeping Up With The
Kardashians hit series called Kourtney
& Khloé Take Miami that is as cynical, phony and preplanned as anything
in TV history. The gals go to the famed
party city to start a clothing store and everything toxic, dysfunctional and
bad you can image happens.
Unfortunately,
it is boring and much worse. With a
title like that, you’ll wish for Jason over The Muppets and not be surprised if
Mexican and Colombian drug cartels start shooting at each other, the latter of
which could have surfaced early on when Khloé’s reveals on her own radio show
that she is using and has cocaine! Does
she get arrested? Of course not! Like millionaire real estate people and millionaire
sports figures past and present, in Miami,
you can use all the cocaine you want to and get away with it, as long as you
have money and know others who will look the other way so you are not arrested
on a felony. That epitomizes the whole
purpose of the entire franchise, be irresponsible, hurt and mow down whoever
you want and if you have money and enablers who are as equally corrupt and
bankrupt, everything is just fine.
That’s the kind of message that we now know is ruining America and the
world.
The show
serves as a reminder of a trend since the 1980s of making everyone disposable
and making only money matter. The gals
cannot act either, though they now have Bruce Jenner (you can’t make this stuff
up) as a father-in-law, who seems to be there to make them look better. Guess all these years after Can’t Stop The Music and CHiPs, correcting his bad acting just
never mattered. But then this show does
not matter, so unless you hate yourself, skip it.
The letterboxed
1.78 X 1 image (I guess they did not have enough money for anamorphic
enhancement, though they could get a limited edition Diamond Jaguar car) is
pale and poor, barely looking good enough to get the rating it earned. Color is weak, we have seen Miami look much better through the years and
detail is inconsistent. The Dolby
Digital 2.0 Stereo is just well-recorded enough to hear the madness, likely
more so because hearing how self-centered everyone is is half the show. Extras more radio footage and deleted scenes
on DVD One and the infamous Wedding episode from the original show on Disc Two
with more deleted scenes.
Maybe Khloé
ought to trade her narcotics in for anti-depressants.
- Nicholas Sheffo
