Updated 07/06/2009 01:28 PM
EW TV Review: "Sex Decoy: Love Stings"
By: Dalton Ross - Entertainment Weekly
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Sometimes you find yourself flipping channels and you end up landing on something that you can't believe actually exists. That happened to me last week when I stumbled upon a show called "Sex Decoy: Love Stings."
Wait a minute, I don't subscribe to Cinemax, was the first thing that went through my mind. No, it turns out that "Sex Decoy" is a reality show on the Fox Reality Channel. The premise goes a little something like this: a family of women with fake breasts runs an agency called Mate Check and their clients are women who believe their boyfriends or fiancées are cheating on them.
But on "Sex Decoys," they don't simply follow the men around to see if they're being unfaithful. After all, that's already been done on the appropriately-named TV show "Cheaters." So on "Sex Decoys, they add blatant entrapment to the mix and send themselves or other half-naked ladies in to try and make the men cheat.
They send a sexy agent, or Sex Decoy, if you will, in to hit on the man and basically beg him to have sex with her. When he finally agrees, then send in the spurned significant other to yell, slap, and occasionally throw drinks all over him.
The whole thing is positively absurd. And, truth be told, kind of hilarious.
Equally hilarious is the claim made by Mate Check matriarch Sandra that they are doing this to be a positive force in relationships. Because causing couples to humiliate themselves on national television always does wonders for the soul.
Perhaps my favorite episode was when Sandra got upset at daughter Xanadu, yes, Xanadu, for not trying hard enough to get a man to cheat. So she brought in an even sluttier woman to do the job, and do the job she did, making out with the guy backstage at a club for his fiancée to watch on hidden camera.
Wow, are we sure this isn't Cinemax?