DVD Review: The Girls Next Door (discs 1 & 2 of 3)

Yeah, I'm not sure what to say about this. For some reason, we put disc one on our Netflix queue. Something about three 20-year-old women as the girlfriends of 80-year-old Hugh Hefner, that's interesting.

Turns out, it's more creepy than interesting. We slowly worked our way through the first disc then pushed the second disc way down in the queue. That one just popped up a week or two ago, and we slowly worked our way through it. I'm not sure if we'll watch disc 3.

Here's the thing. First, there's Holly. She seems to be completely manipulative/in love with the Hef. She's bright/delusional. She wants a baby with him/wants financial security. I can't figure it out. It may be all of the above. She actually, physically sleeps in the same bed with Hef, according to the show.

Then there's Kendra. Or Bridget. I'm not sure which is which. The one on the left in the picture. She is a walking stereotype of a the dumb blonde. She pretends to be a jock-girl, but when asked to actually play a sport, it's clear it's just an act. She also isn't so good with the whole reading thing.

The other one, Bridget (or Kendra), is the brightest of the bunch. She has advanced degrees and it shows (Holly has a Master's, apparently, which is part of why I can't figure out if she's just exploiting a good thing or actually in love).

They all live a completely bizarre life in a fantasy land something akin to how I imagine Michael Jackson's Neverland Ranch before he fled the country.

Which brings me to Hef. I didn't know much about him before. I guess things would be different if I grew up when he was younger. But the Hef of this tv show is a frail old man. It's sad in a way. You get to see that he still runs Playboy, along with a host of little old ladies who, I assume, have been working at the magazine for a long, long time. I'm not an expert in the world of porn magazines, but somehow I doubt that others are run by so many people who remember the Depression.

Something is very clearly creepy about the fact that Hef's oldest daughter is in her late 50's and that if he had a new kid with Holly, that baby could be mistaken not for Hef's child, but his great-great grandchild. No, really, think about it. He's 80. If his daughter is near 60, had a baby at 20, and her kid had a baby at 20, then that baby had a baby at 20 (not that babies should be having babies), then that would be Hef's great-great grandchild. In other words, all of Hef's girlfriends could pass for his great-grandchildren.

Ok, I need to think about something else.