Gene Simmons and Shannon Tweed breaking up... contrived or real?

[LadyZod]

This show is still on?

Geez.

We're big KISS fans here in the house, but I can only take so much "forced reality"

[samurainoir]

Paul Stanley finally agreed to appear on the show in the episode for Gene's 60th birthday party, I believe he made a small speech or toast if memory serves.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wLcSjydFVWg

[Cosmicman]

I saw an episode the other night and one thing you don't do is televise counselor/patient sessions. Very contrived. I bet Paul Stanley is just rolling his eyes. If you notice, during the KISS segments he is almost completely edited out except in long shots of the stage. I bet he asked Gene to keep him out of it so he doesn't get associated with the show.

In the beginning Paul Stanley said he didn't want this show to affect his career or KISS but him and Gene compromised. Paul couldn't stop the "KISS THING" but he hardly can be seen.
Good eye that you caught that but once in awhile Paul Stanley does make it into some of the footage.

I think KISS is probably going to poop out one more record. I have heard Gene and Paul talk about it. After that, I am sure there is going to be a real farewell tour.
Paul Stanley has been hinting at other projects and things he'd like to do in his "retirement" so, whatever that means it probably means KISS has about maybe between five to seven years left.

[MIB41]

I saw an episode the other night and one thing you don't do is televise counselor/patient sessions. Very contrived. I bet Paul Stanley is just rolling his eyes. If you notice, during the KISS segments he is almost completely edited out except in long shots of the stage. I bet he asked Gene to keep him out of it so he doesn't get associated with the show.

[MegoMark71]

It's all fake all the time, every bit of it.

[Cosmicman]

This is so put on and fake. The ratings of this show have been dipping and i am sure Gene and Shannon cooked this up. There already back together anyway. People will always put **** on a reality show for ratings. I don't believe anything I see on there.

[fallensaviour]

I think it's pretty real as far as reality TV can get but I still saw the contrivances (i.e. the web page Shannon "stumbled" on to see Gene with a bunch of ladies. The web address at top looked like it was actually an HTML file opened up from the desktop folder. I am betting she actually saw what bothered her off camera and recreated it for TV)

I'm sure it's all a set up,however; she received a phone call and and email thats where she saw the photo she didn't just stumble upon it.

[mego73]

I think it's pretty real as far as reality TV can get but I still saw the contrivances (i.e. the web page Shannon "stumbled" on to see Gene with a bunch of ladies. The web address at top looked like it was actually an HTML file opened up from the desktop folder. I am betting she actually saw what bothered her off camera and recreated it for TV)

[samurainoir]

These marital problems spilling into the show feels like the second season of The Two Coreys. Where the first season of The Two Coreys was ridiculously constructed, the second was frighteningly real with Haim succumbing to his drug problems on the set of Lost Boys 2. He died not long after that IIRC.

Shannon's outrage seems pretty real to me. As does Sophie confronting her father.

[samurainoir]

She claims that the last 3(?) or so years have been problematic.

That coincides with the Gene Simmons sex tape appearing online in 2008. She might very well have been in denial for a quarter century or so that Gene was cheating on her until that scandal surfaced on the internet with undeniable evidence.

Add that to the empty nest and you have a couple that has major stuff to work out.

[Den82]

I love the KISS Megos, I like a lot of the early songs and the first albums. But as people....man do I HATE Gene Simmons and Paul Stanley!

[jwyblejr]

After watching all three episodes,I'm left sitting here scratching my head. In other episodes,he bent over backwards for her to give her whatever she wanted. Then she wants to dump him? And he's willing to do whatever she wants to keep her but they make it sound like he's the bad guy? Kinda cheesy how they got them back together.

[Riffster]

I think the daughters gonna be super hot if she decides to go into modeling

[Joe90]

I only catch snippets of it so I can't say. However, the show is true ART -- Absurdist-Reality Television. Like the time where Gene is asked to be the godfather at a Catholic Baptism. The reaction when the priest asks him if he's Catholic is priceless and for me pretty much sums up the whole tone of the show.

I will comment that I do think Gene needs a hair make over and Shannon should lay off the botox.

[Dark Shadow]

Perhaps this is due to the "re-enactment" lacking the luxury of mood adjustments, retakes & editing?