On some news program last night, this alleged killer Jodi Arias had her picture put in the same little graphic box with Oscar Pistorius’s picture, so that their heads were right next to each other, kind of like they were a couple. And that made me think: “Hey! How about a reality show where accused murderers who beat the rap get matched up for dating?”
So wouldn’t that be the ultimate combination of all this tabloid murder trial fixation mixed with celebrity matchmaking? It could be called Killer Dates, and people could gamble on who would live or die, and if one killed the other, the TV show would promise to pay for some famous lawyer, like Mark Geragos or Alan Dershowitz, to defend them if they killed the other one, and to suppress as much evidence as possible aside from what the show needs for their episode.
And okay, if their lawyers got testy about the title, then how about calling it An Allegedly Killer Romance? That way everyone would know it was a romance between two alleged killers, but because “killer” can also mean “great” or “awesome”, and because we don’t know how awesome the romance might end up being, it could claim to mean something other than its implied title.
