Get This Party Started
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Feb 6, 2006
9 p.m. Tuesday, February 7
UPN
Seems like a good idea on the surface: Surprise some deserving folks with the posh party of a lifetime. But leave it to reality television to make even a feel-good story feel tainted.
The new UPN series "Get This Party Started" has its heart in the right place, and it's tough to criticize the iconoclasm of a show in this genre that's focused on the positive. But, in the last football metaphor of the season, it's like watching as a coach calls the right play only to see it backfire because of poor execution.
The premiere follows sisters Arin and Alexis, whose family home in New Orleans was lost to Hurricane Katrina. Arin's dream is to throw her little sister a 21st birthday bash. Enter the "Party" people, led by Ken and Barbie hosts Ethan Erickson and Kristin Cavallari. The latter, a nonpro from MTV's "Laguna Beach," adds only wooden line readings and a distracting self-consciousness.
One after another, the party planner or makeup artist or hairdresser to the stars is employed to make the Vegas birthday celebration as fabulous as can be. Yeah, OK. But this hour from exec producer Allison Grodner ("Big Brother") leads the league in overreactions and on-cue hugs, making it seem just too phony to have any real impact.
Let's get this wrap party started.
UPN
Seems like a good idea on the surface: Surprise some deserving folks with the posh party of a lifetime. But leave it to reality television to make even a feel-good story feel tainted.
The new UPN series "Get This Party Started" has its heart in the right place, and it's tough to criticize the iconoclasm of a show in this genre that's focused on the positive. But, in the last football metaphor of the season, it's like watching as a coach calls the right play only to see it backfire because of poor execution.
The premiere follows sisters Arin and Alexis, whose family home in New Orleans was lost to Hurricane Katrina. Arin's dream is to throw her little sister a 21st birthday bash. Enter the "Party" people, led by Ken and Barbie hosts Ethan Erickson and Kristin Cavallari. The latter, a nonpro from MTV's "Laguna Beach," adds only wooden line readings and a distracting self-consciousness.
One after another, the party planner or makeup artist or hairdresser to the stars is employed to make the Vegas birthday celebration as fabulous as can be. Yeah, OK. But this hour from exec producer Allison Grodner ("Big Brother") leads the league in overreactions and on-cue hugs, making it seem just too phony to have any real impact.
Let's get this wrap party started.
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