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[ Friday, Feb. 2, 2007 ]

'Maui Fever'
TV Show Review

Collegian Staff Writer

Whatever happened to Daria, Beavis and Butthead, Jackass and music videos?

MTV, also known as music television, has slowly eradicated itself over the years with an excessive number of reality television shows -- not reality television shows like The Real World or Road Rules, but shows solely based on sex, sex, maybe a little underage drinking and some more sex.

MTV has finally hit its all time low with Maui Fever.

Produced by Laguna Beach's executive producers, Maui Fever is a show made up of the overly dramatic lives of surfer boys and beach-blonde babes in Hawaii. In other words, it is a terrible episode of Laguna Beach. The first two episodes are the introduction of the characters and their intriguing lives of lying on the beach all day and partying all night. The guys think they can get any girl they want, including tourists, and strive to meet hot tourists who visit their island, but they have one rule: They can never actually fall for a tourist.

The girls, on the other hand, endeavor to stir up drama in their circle of friends, and they continue to torture their ex-boyfriends with their arrogance and jealousy. At least in Laguna Beach, the characters were decently good looking and were actually setting goals. The characters in Maui Fever go nowhere but the beach or the local bar.

I must admit that I was an advocate for Laguna Beach, but this show is just disappointing and mind-numbing. I will warn those who chose to watch an episode, you will lose brain cells. I hope one day MTV will realize its demise and bring back quality television shows and hey, maybe even some music videos. After all, it is music television, right? Grade: F


 

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