Critics Slam "Jon and Kate Plus 8" Season 5 Premier

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So what did we all think of last nights show? It was a little weird. I have to admit I became a "fan" of the show because I have a son, with one on the way and I understand how when kids are added to your life how much of your life changes. Especially, between you and your spouse. Kids come first it's just how it goes. One thing that fascinated me about Jon and Kate was that with 8 children and the chaos that went on in their household they managed to remain married! They took time out on occasion to spend time with each other and still seemed "in love." They even went as far as to renew their vows in Hawaii last season. So what the hell happened? Watching "Kate Plus 8" is not going to work. I do not admire them as a couple anymore. Last nights show Kate came across as completely sucked into fame. She dresses different and acts like she is Lindsay Lohan. Get over yourself! If her marriage is failing because she wants to continue with the show and her husband does not (maybe you should consider quitting the show) and not having a Season 5. They say they started the show to document their children's lives. I hope that is the reason the continue to do they show. Critics were not too sensitive to the premier last night:

The Baltimore Sun:
"Is it really, Kate?" sniped the Baltimore Sun's David Zurwik. "Tell that to a family in which the breadwinner has just lost her or his job, you silly, self-absorbed fool."

New Jersey's Star Ledger:
New Jersey's Star Ledger also calls out Kate for her hypocrisy over the paparazzi. In a voiceover on Monday's premiere, she says that she tells her kids to call the paparazzi "the P-people" because "I don't want them going to school being like, 'Well, the paparazzi is following us, like, that's so creepy.'" Says the Star Ledger: "What's creepy is having your children followed around by a camera crew. Any camera crew. Period. It's exploitation, whatever cutesy name you want to give it

Entertainment Weekly:
Ken Tucker of Entertainment Weekly notes that Kate made it a point to say she was "alone" about six times on Monday's premiere. (At one point on the show, she complained that "Jon decided he needed a weekend off," so she had to organize the 5-year-old sextuplets' birthday party by herself.) "You just wanted to say, 'We get it! You feel you're the Wronged Woman! Aren't you savvy enough by now to know you're not winning us over?' This was especially true when she noted that 'all of a sudden, your kids are calling you your babysitter's name.' I could almost hear millions of viewers shouting, 'So stay home!'"

The Baltimore Sun:
Sarah Kickler Kelber of The Baltimore Sun also takes aim at Jon -- who clearly did not want to be on the show -- for not opening up about his marital problems. On the show, he denies cheating on his wife but vaguely apologizes for his "actions." "It would be so much clearer if they would just say their version of what happened," Kelber writes. "This is just more complicated than it needs to be. It's not like they aren't used to sharing the details of their lives, you know? We saw Jon's hair-transplant surgery as it happened, and Kate recovering from her tummy tuck, and the kids going through potty training. Most of that was probably too much information, but now we aren't quite getting enough."

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