Crowned Gives Us Mothers in Tiaras

For all you moms out there whose daughter doesn’t have a successful film career, don’t worry – you can still become a train wreck together.  Crowned:  The Mother of All Pageants premiered tonight on the CW.  In theory, the mothers and daughters compete as a team, but we are all familiar with the reality of reality TV.  No drama no ratings.  And what’s more dramatic than the mother-daughter relationship?  Throw in some jealousy and maybe a lost lipstick and you’ve got the formula for a hit.  Runny mascara and all. 

I was pleasantly surprised to see that the mothers and daughters are not veteran pageant contestants.  They are regular girls that have signed up for an unhealthy dose of humiliation.  Let’s see if the mothers can behave as such instead of getting sucked up into the fantasy that they can recapture their daughters’ youth.