'Biggest Loser': More drama but less cursing
In this space last week, many viewers of The Biggest Loser lamented all of the cursing and putdowns emanating from trainers Bob and Jillian on the season premiere.
But this week, they seemed pretty toned down. While Bob put half the contestants through an intense workout (now with less belittling!), Jillian walked the rest through the kitchen, explaining to them how important it is to eat enough and make the right choices.
Also, hospitalized contestant Tracey rejoined the group, and chef Curtis Stone stopped by for some more food tutorials.
The twist this episode was that if the contestants collectively lost 150 pounds this week, no one would go home. Week 2 is historically one of the toughest for weight loss, as their bodies start fighting all the changes, so everyone was worried.
But in the course of two challenges, the contestants worked together and earned deductions. By the weigh-in, they only had to lose 115, which was still a sizable chunk. But they pulled it off, and no one went home.
It was nice to see the contestants cooperating (though some were really thinking that Julio wasn't, um, pulling his weight, but he ended up losing 19 pounds) and to see the trainers pushing them hard but in a seemingly more supportive way. Don't you think?
Comments
I was shocked to see them work together like that. Phone call home in this early of the show and for all is something they never did before. I think the 150 was an extreme push to keep week 2 from being a typical week 2 with minimum losses. I think week 3 is going to show what we usually see in week 2.
Posted by: Capt Jack | September 24, 2009 8:22 AM
Do you think that possibly they look at blogs and message boards and saw that a lot of poeple were saying that they don't like the cussing so they edited it out of this week's episode?
SKK: I feel like their production schedule probably wouldn't have allowed for that, but I'm totally speculating.
Posted by: Chris in KS | September 24, 2009 9:33 AM
I know there was allot of cussing. Who ever ran the sound board and provided the cutoffs did a good job.
Posted by: Capt Jack | September 24, 2009 4:42 PM
A wonderul show with many redeeming features and good educational advice for the obses public. My wife and I have wathced with interest since the show inception. We are now turned off by the constant use of profanity by the trainers and their absence of leadership concepts. A leader NEVER chastises his participants in front of others. Neither is it clear to us just why the trainers get so personally upsent when faced with the rigors of each new circumstance. They should simply decide how they are going to deal with each situation and get on with it. That is their job. They should leae their persona emotions and profanity out of the picture. It is a mystery why the show producers would permit such language and such unprofessional performance by the tainers. It could be a superb show IF the trainers cleaned up their language and stop taking any of the situations personally. Why would constestants tolerate being yelled at and chastised by the trainers? The contestants are much more classy and mature that the trainers. The trainers should be replaced with less rude, arrogant and profane one. When that hapens we will resume watch your show. At present it sets a poor example of decorum and leadership.
Posted by: Jerry Rea | September 30, 2009 1:20 PM
Stop the cussing. Constestants should not have to tolerate such boorish abuse. Stop also the "bootcamp" treatment of constetants. A more mature approach by trainers is proposed. The cursing and screaming is offensive to viewers.
Posted by: Jerry Rea | September 30, 2009 1:28 PM
Question: considering the disasters that have taken place this week, has anyone gotten in contact w/the Samoan cousins from last season to determine how they and their families have fared? It seemed easy enough to contact them when they were on the show and traveled home, I thought someone may have had the presence of mind to inquire into their well-being.
Posted by: Phyllis Fisher | October 2, 2009 1:50 PM
I like Curtis Stone. I watched him a lot. Part of reason I decided to start a routine of better eating and exercise. So far twenty-five pound weight loss. My friend loves the Biggest Loser, I will have to tell her about your site.
Posted by: Sherry T. | October 4, 2009 8:02 PM
To Jerry Rea:
The cousins were not Somoan. I believe they were Tongan from Tongo.
As far as the cussing bootcamp style tactics go, I think they are necessary for the morbidly obese contestants to step up and work out enough to lose the amount of weight that will keep them in the game.
Posted by: 3jinbfa | October 9, 2009 12:17 AM