Tori Spelling's Reality Show Ends With Producers Fabricating Tweets
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After getting off to a bumpy start, True Tori never managed to fully convince people of its authenticity. So perhaps it’s fitting that last night’s “reunion” episode rang just as false as the rest of the season, with a little bit of staged drama, fake viewer-submitted questions from nonexistent Twitter accounts and Dean McDermott singing an original song based on his cheating scandal.
First of all, it was weird to refer to last night’s episode as a “reunion,” with host Brooke Anderson (fittingly, an Entertainment Tonight correspondent) announcing that Tori and Dean would “reunite” in their living room to discuss everything that’s happened. Wasn’t that the entire premise of the actual show? And these people live together. Are they reuniting for the first time since 20 minutes ago?
They did address the “rumor” that the show was fake, which they denied. But then the reunion trudged on with its bizarre tone similar to that of Caesar Flickerman interviewing the tributes of the Hunger Games. When dark subject matter is highly-produced to maximize its entertainment value it lends the situation a surreality that’s at once off-putting and engaging.
In a one-on-one with Tori, Brooke established that, later in the show, they would be asking Dean if he ever cheated with any other women beside the elusive Emily Goodhand. But after a few commercial breaks, Tori walks into her own living room to have an impromptu chat with Brooke to tell her that she just isn’t ready to ambush Dean like that. It’s supposed to feel like a behind-the-scenes, insider peek at how the reunion was being made, but it just felt like a scene.