"The Steve Wilkos Show" (2007) TV series 2007-????

Director:

Richard Dominick

Seasons:

1 | 2 | unknown

Release Date:

10 September 2007 (USA)

Genre:

Drama | Talk-Show

Plot Keywords:

Character Name In Title

Cast

 (Series Cast [1])

Steve Wilkos

...

Himself (6 episodes, 2007)

Also Known As:

Steve Wilkos (USA) (short title)

Runtime:

USA:60 min (including commercials)

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Certification:

Canada:PG (TV rating) | USA:TV-14

Filming Locations:

Chicago, Illinois, USA

Company:

NBC Universal Television

Quotes:

[repeated line]
Steve wilkos: This is moron-free TV and you're not allowed to watch.

Movie Connections:

Spin off from "The Jerry Springer Show" (1991)

Hooray!

I am so delighted to search "The Steve Wilkos Show" here on IMDb and to find it's low but essentially appropriate user rating: 3.5. Hooray! The people have finally started to recognize this show for what it is: pure hogwash.

I've known this for awhile now but I'd just like to share it with those of you whom are not yet enlightened: Steve Wilkos is nothing but one gigantic fraud. He's a big bully who found his ridiculous but essentially cheap niche: Pandering to the general public's emotions. Most people reason, "Mr. Wilkos yells at wife-beaters and child abusers and people who don't support their kids because their spouse says so, so he must be one hell of a guy!" Wrong. These people--cutting loose the idea that the show isn't in fact staged, which sounds probable--are terrible, no doubt. But Steve is neither articulate nor bright enough to get his "points" across to them; so he usually just get's all red-faced and yells uncontrollably like some stupid, castrated Pitt Bull that can no longer hold his mud. You can't fight fire with fire, Steve; and you can only pander to the people's emotions for so long before they recognize you for what you really are: one giant, hypocritical opportunist.

In a pathetic attempt to prove to his viewers and audience and maybe even himself that what he's doing is for the greater good of mankind, Steve usually hand-picks an e-mail from one of his detractors...usually an e-mail without any depth...that more or less reads, "Dear Steve. You're stupid. And your show sucks" Then Steve will usually reply smugly with, "If yelling at perverts and wife-beaters and bad people makes me stupid, then I guess I'm stupid, pal." Steve doesn't have the guts to read aloud any of his more well-versed and articulate hate-mail, because it proves him to be the fraud and faker he really is.

I know it's hard not to watch "The Steve Wilkos Show" folks. Because it is so bad, it's hard to turn away. Like a massive car wreck on a freeway or a Carrot Top movie, but for the love of god! Look away. Then finally this excrement will be cancelled and flushed down the toilet and into the sewers - precisely where it belongs.