Laguna Beach is to The Hills as Girls Next Door is to Holly’s World. If you know and watch the first three shows in that analogy, then you’re probably the target audience for the fourth. Just as Lauren Conrad left the homogenous shores of Laguna for the big city, Holly Madison has left the palatial estate of Hugh Hefner for the bright lights and spectacle of Las Vegas where she hosts a nightly show on the strip. Her life outside of the Vegas venue has become the subject of her own reality show, Holly’s World, wherein she and her entourage hold special events, go on vacation, get cosmetic surgery, have blind dates, and so forth. In typical reality TV fashion, the show milks its content to reach the 22-minute episode mark, but in its defense it’s nowhere near as over-the-top and melodramatic as so much reality programming.
The set includes both the first and second seasons of the show, and includes the full adventures of Holly, her assistant Angel Porrino, friend and Peepshow co-star Josh Strickland, and roommate Laura Croft. There’s plenty of emotional support in that collection of friends, but ultimately the whole production is entirely vapid. Current sensationalist trends of audience voyeurism aside, Holly’s World feels like filming for filming’s sake. There’s no rewarding human experience unfolding here, no obstacles being overcome or strides being made. It’s just a well-endowed girl and her friends living off the career her body has gained her.
DVD Bonus Features
The episodes appear uncensored on the discs, though that’s rarely, if ever, a factor that changes what you see here versus what you would have seen on television. Deleted scenes hold little of interest, and considering reality television is pretty much a feature-length blooper reel of humanity, a gag reel seems redundant.
"Holly's World: The Complete Seasons 1 & 2" is on sale September 27, 2011 and is not rated. Comedy, Drama, Reality. Written by Mike Mohr. Starring Holly Madison.
