Common Sense Media Review
By Melissa Camacho
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based on child development research. How do we rate?
Bawdy wedding advice show has cursing, drinking, innuendo.
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The Wedding Coach
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What's the Story?
THE WEDDING COACH stars Girl Code's Jamie Lee coaching couples through their wedding planning difficulties. Each 30-minute episode of the Netflix original series features Lee, along with a fellow comedian, as she meets with the bride and groom to determine what some of the stressors are. With her help, couples make difficult decisions about decor, wedding activities, and even bridesmaids and difficult guests. In the end, viewers get to see how it all turned out.
Is It Any Good?
This uneven series highlights the notion that couples are often stressed out trying to plan a wedding that looks and feels like those promoted by the multimillion dollar bridal industry. Each couple faces different challenges, from over-planning wedding activities to coping with cultural differences and controlling people. However, the actual process by which their problems are resolved are limited to just a few scenes. As a result, there's no real picture of what the bride and groom are changing to make the overall experience better.
The biggest flaw in the The Wedding Coach is the coach itself. Jamie Lee's intentions are good, and the messages she tries to send about what matters when it comes to planning a wedding are sound. But her overall experience on the matter is limited to planning her own wedding and writing a book about it, which leaves little other than her sometimes-bawdy, and often swear-laced, humor to add substance to the series. As a result, it's hard to take her, or the show, very seriously.
Talk to Your Kids About ...
Families can talk about weddings. What makes them so special? Do they have to be expensive? What kinds of things do people do to make their weddings unique?
What are some of the different ways unscripted TV shows reinforce the idea that there is such thing as a perfect wedding? How doesThe Wedding Coach define wedding perfection? How do you define it?
TV Details
- Premiere date : April 7, 2021
- Cast : Jamie Lee
- Network : Netflix
- Genre : Reality TV
- TV rating :
- Last updated : April 8, 2021
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