For you, my dear readers, I have taken a bullet and watched Age of Love (the "cougars" vs. "kittens" dating show), so you don't have to.

In it, tennis star Mark Philippoussis, 30, goes on a dating show a la The Bachelor, thinking he's going to be cozying up with a bunch of girls who fit his previous dating past, which is to say hot and, almost always, younger than him.

So when he starts meeting the women and realizes they are in their 40s (except for one 39-year-old), he looks gobsmacked. But over the course of the episode, he starts to get more comfortable with the concept and gets to know some of the women. He has to eliminate one, and he goes for the woman with the 8-year-old son (rather than either of the two with sons in their 20s, which seems like it would be more uncomfortable, but whatever).

Meanwhile, a limo-full of 20-somethings (although there are a couple I suspect are lying about this) moves in, fully aware of what they are walking into, while the older women are still in the dark -- and Mark only has had the twist revealed to him in the last scene.

We haven't seen much of either group yet, but the 20s all seem really bratty. While the 40s definitely have a few moments of trying too hard and some plastic surgery procedures among them, they at least have some life experience to talk about beyond their own relative hotness. Frankly, if I stick with the show, I'm rooting for the older women. But if it gets too catty, I'm out!