- Network: UPN
- Series Premiere Date: Feb 7, 2006
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Where "Party" goes awry is by trying to be an hour. That's twice as long as it should be. There's more fat in it than a Popeye's biscuit.
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It is overlong, contrived and utterly out of place on UPN. It plays like something left over that the network needs to discard before going out of business.
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Uninspired and flat.
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Something feels wrong about a TV "reality show" team swooping into the hotel where a displaced Hurricane Katrina family has been living since September and carting two girls out to Las Vegas for a fancy birthday party.
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The lavishing [of gifts] never abates, until what you're witnessing feels less like a party than an icky display of instant wealth meant to leave the rest of us drooling, wondering what about our own lives might get us on a TV show.
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[It] leads the league in overreactions and on-cue hugs, making it seem just too phony to have any real impact.
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I guess this is supposed to be another "feel-good" reality show, but it comes off more like an exercise in wretched excess.
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In television terms, a program like this can be produced for pocket change, which explains, at least partly, its presence on the UPN schedule.
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A do-good reality show that makes a big deal about how morally superior it is.
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You can practically feel the IQ points leaking out your ears as you watch.
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UPN's new series has a shot -- in the sweepstakes for the worst reality show of all time.
User score distribution:
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Positive: 3 out of 8
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Mixed: 0 out of 8
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Negative: 5 out of 8
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YayJun 3, 2006My friends all owe me 10 bucks! I knew this show would only last a week.
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JessalynMApr 4, 2006This show is so stupid.
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JonFeb 23, 2006The New York Post called this show (...overlong, contrived and utterly out of place.) Yep, that pretty much describes UPN!