Tila Tequila, episode 8, aired Tuesday night at 9 pm
Content-The show I chose to watch was “A shot at Love with Tila Tequila�, episode eight: Welcome to the family-Tila meets the parents. This is a show about a bisexual bachelorette looking for love. She started with 16 men and 16 women and is now down to the final four. She has the men and women competing against each other for individual one-on-one time with her. At the end of every show, Tila usually eliminates one man and one woman until she gets down to one. The specific episode I watched was episode eight, at two in the morning on Wednesday, today. Tila visited her last four contestants’ families. She went all across the country to visit Bobby, Amanda, Dani, and Ryan’s families. All of the visits went well, even though a couple of families were taken back and downright shocked that Tila is bisexual. After meeting the parents, and hanging out, Tila went back to California to the elimination. In the end, she decided to eliminate Ryan because his family was the least comfortable with Tila being bisexual since his family is more conservative.
Context-MTV is the network that airs this series. There are a number of producers, but the executive producer is Sally Ann Salsano. This show is aimed at an audience of young women who are sucked in by the theme of looking for love and men who want to drool over hot women getting physical.
Form-The episode consisted of lighting on the hair during individual interviews made their hair shiny and silky looking, especially the tall pretty blonde, Amanda. The sun always seemed to capture the right spot of the bodies of the women to make them look like they are glowing. And the men’s’ bodies looked muscular and smooth. There were cuts to individual interviews of everyone to give quick insights or thoughts about what is happening around them. Also, during the interviews, in this particular episode, the women’s hair was blowing in the wind, like trying to be sexy. And at one point, Tila looked topless in one of her interviews. One thing I noticed was that the blonde, Amanda, is highly sexualized and I can’t help but think she stays to the end to draw in more viewers since she is an attractive blonde with huge boobs. The background music changes so much with what is happening during specific events, like when Tila is getting ready to give the last key to her final contestant that will not be eliminated, the music changes to a anticipation-type sound, to peak the viewers suspense of needing to know who is going home. The ideas and ideals that are being sold in this representation is basically a show for dirty men to watch to get off from seeing two females being affectionate towards each other. The use of gazes is important because the women’s bodies in this show are so sexualized and objectified and another time the gaze is important is when Tila is giving out the keys to the people who she wants to stay, she is looking up at her “heroes� because they are bigger and stronger than her and she needs them to protect her, while they are looking down at her petite frame. The odd one out in this show is Dani, the more masculine female. She is has short hair, does not appear to wear makeup or dresses, is more laid back and not catty, like other females that were in the house, but I would say that Dani is more of the “stereotypical� lesbian, since “girly-girls� are perceived to be heterosexual.