VH1’s The Pick Up Artist. Can reality TV do justice to PU?

Most people in this community are aware of the transformations that The Game can achieve. None are more dramatic than that of Strauss himself, who went from being a dateless AFC who wondered if he would ever find someone, to becoming a sliver tounged Lothario, capable of seducing women on a level, and even becoming even more capable than those who had taught him.

His story gave hope to millions, and he soon had an army of followers, as men across the world started using his methods to seduce women. Thousands of men have testified to how the game has transformed their lives from socially inept geeks to smooth talking seducers.

However, the journey from someone who can’t even talk to women, let alone get a date, to becoming a pick up artist who has almost complete choice with women, is not an overnight, or smooth transition. It often takes months of approaches and rejections before someone can hone their game and start building confidence to be really good.

The Pick Up Artist on VH1 is aiming to compress this process into just a few weeks, and the contestants will be expected to get dramatic results in a very short amount of time. Granted they will be being trained by Mystery, supposedly one of the greatest pick up artists of all time, however it’s debatable about what even he can do to transform the love lives of a relatively large number of hapless men.

It will also be interesting to see how the Mystery Method fares in modern society. It’s arguably a victim of its own success, and the lines and techniques that Mystery teaches are now quite well known. So does asking for a girl’s opinion, before gnetly lowering her self esteem through negs still work in the field? Or will savy girls start blowing their cover?

I’d like to say that we’ll find answers from watching the second series of The Pick Up Artist, however reality TV is not the most genuine of formats, and it’s going to be difficult to judge exactly how good the contestants are, and who’s performances are totally genuine, as opposed to who is being stage managed and selected to stay, due to their qualities which make them suitable for reality TV.

Becoming a master pick up artist takes years of studying and practicing theory, and isn’t an honour that can be bestowed upon someone after a few weeks of being filmed. I would love to see a program mapping the transformation of someone over the course of months from a man who couldn’t even look a girl in the eye, to someone who can seduce the attractive women of their choice. It’s a process that I’ve both undergone myself, and witnessed, and only hope that The Pick Up Artist on VH1 can do it justice.

Brad