My Own

EXECUTIVE PRODUCER: Billy Rainey
GENRE: Reality Show
RATING: 3.0

What more can an avid fan possibly ask for aside from meeting his/her most wanted celebrity up-close and live in the flesh? Music Television (MTV) offers another dating game, as My Own, plus a certain twist. The fan does not get as lucky as securing a date with his/her favorite star. As a delightful alternative, can date someone whom he/she perceives to be exactly like the icon, may it be in terms of the chosen one's appearance or sheer qualities.
Sets of evaluations staged by the searcher along with his or her two other buddies cut the initially six contestants to a victorious one. My Own edges over other reality dating shows due to the required skill that goes hand in hand with the aspiring searchee. He or she must first brush up on the featured star's biography since that could take him/her a notch higher. It also serves an an "X factor" if the contender can sing or rap their idol's chart-topping songs, groove to the beat, dress with the attitude, or simply exude the charm akin to the celebrity's. Albeit projecting the celeb's trademark style is an eye-catcher, it is a common ground for the chosen ones that they manage to pull the Hollywood aura off with a balance of own identity. Hence, the maxim:"Always be yourself" still works magic.
Viewers shall certainly be amused with the guts that surround the competing teens with how close they can look like their idol. The presence of the challenger's friends can be quite influential though, that one is left baffled whether his/her choice for date was of own taste or to impress the other two. Also, My Own's well-crafted and highly embellished setting analogous to the real shooting-the-video scenario is hard to ignore. The crew undeniably plans matters up to its finest details (e.g. things present in the real video are also included in the video remake round) and the impeccability of the final three's impersonation after undergoing the scrunity of a guru. But on top of that, the show's main theme, which is to link two people with passions entwined serves as the breakthrough.