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"The Steve Wilkos Show" (2007)
12 out of 18 people found the following comment useful :-
Hooray!, 1 May 2008
Author: NY_Cabby_48 from USA
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.
17 out of 28 people found the following comment useful :-
Better than "Jerry Springer" in my opinion., 5 October 2007
Author: johnnymacbest from United States
Jerry Springer may have some major competition this fall with the release of the Steve Wilkos Show. Unlike Springer which is nothing but pure exhibition with sexual innuendo and brawls, this show offers tough love with compassion from the big bad bald guy himself: Steve Wilkos. One episode that incensed me was "Devil Mom" where a woman used her own daughter to perform sexual intercourse in exchange for cash. I really felt for Steve when he tried to help her stop doing what she was doing to her daughter. That episode was really powerful.
All in all the show is great, the host is great, the stories are engaging and poignant with some glimmer of hope for the guests and so on. So what if it's not Springer. Give this show a chance and you will not be disappointed.
3 out of 3 people found the following comment useful :-
Entertaining, but not what it pretends to be., 19 May 2008
Author: jp_69 from Canada
The Steve Wilkos Show is a show featuring former Marine and police officer Steve Wilkos, an intimidating, muscular brute of a man who once served as a bodyguard on the Jerry Springer Show and, thanks to that, got a show of his own. The show features Wilkos inviting a variety of disgusting human beings, mostly child molesters and drug addicts, giving them lie detector tests, and then yelling at them for 45 minutes, stomping around like some kind of savage beast, throwing chairs and the like, while the guest stands woodenly there with his or her arms crossed, fervently denying Wilkos's allegations and occasionally breaking down into tears while the studio audience cheers and claps.
I'm an avid watcher of this show because I find it entertaining to see such events take place. Call me a moron or a product of Hollywood's violent, sensationalistic movies, but it entertains me. However, I find it very disturbing that Mr. Wilkos holds the firm belief that he's actually helping people. When he wore the badge and gun and worked to keep the streets of Chicago safe, then he was helping people, but spending an hour yelling and bullying people is not helping them. Perhaps it does make the victims of such atrocities feel good to see their abusers be terrorized by some seven foot wall of muscle, but I think that such problems could be worked out much better in a room with a qualified psychiatric professional, not on national television with the entire world watching.
I do think that the scum that Mr. Wilkos brings to his stage deserve the harshest punishment available, and I like seeing them quiver as he cuts them down to size, but I do not think that Steve is doing anything helpful. He's fighting violence with violence, and two wrongs do not make a right.
The Steve Wilkos Show is a very entertaining show, but it is definitely not the helpful talk show that it masquerades as.
Unrated: Contains censored profanity and intensity.
-Evan Raufbold
12 out of 21 people found the following comment useful :-
Belligerent and violent. Not for intelligent people, 5 February 2008
Author: ex-temporalis from United States
Steve Wilkos is nothing more than a grown-up version of what he was in high school. A bully who gets into fights and yells at people, thinking he'll 'scare them straight'. He flaunts his ex-Marine and former cop status to his guests as if it redeems the fact that he has an anger problem and violent tendencies. It's narcissistic. Also, at the end of the show, when he reads the viewer e-mails, he ALWAYS replies to those who are against his tactics with the ever-redundant 'belly rub analogy', it usually sounds something like "If YOU have a show, you can have these pedophiles and abusers on your stage, give them tea and a belly rub...." Never fails. Steve, just because we're against you DOES NOT mean we are FOR the other side! Also, every time I hear Steve's volume go up, the tonal inflections of his voice sound *exactly the same*. Maybe it's because I'm a musician, I notice these things. Steve also admitted that to most of these horrible people he has on the show, he'd seriously like to inflict them harm. Here's a gem of wisdom for the two-dimensional: Violence breeds violence. Just stop. Both Steve and whatever abuser he's tearing into lack foresight, and I pity that people lack that, but please, there are shades of grey in the way things are handled, not black and white, as Steve sees it. To Steve, freedom isn't free and peace isn't peaceful. I oftentimes compare this show to the A&E show "Intervention". Intervention has professionals working with the families in a civil manner to the drug user/abuser/addict, etc., not screaming at them like a crazed ape. I hope that after the second season, the Steve Wilkos Show gets wiped off the air and he can then take his hero complex elsewhere.
Also, To those people who blame the likes of me for 'being liberal' and "hating the death penalty", answer this: How does killing the killer make everything right again? Does it bring back the innocent? Or does it just continue the cycle of violence? Enough is enough. Steve is one for egging one on, trying to make them act out in violence, publicly humiliating them. That is not making things right. That is not 'tough love', that's exacerbating the existing problem, only in front of a camera. Steve isn't a therapist, he's not a hero, he's a human animal with a lack of foresight.
2 out of 2 people found the following comment useful :-
I had to be hospitalized., 6 August 2008
Author: Brian Heaven from United States
I was literally chronically bleeding in the back of my eye after viewing this. This is absolute balderdash and Jerry-Springer-rip-off-trash. The host is loud and pretty much unintelligible. The chair is a gag to get ratings and every time they prey on the person who is contemplating suicide after agreeing to be an actor on their show. Just think to your self, "Why would a person who knows he did it, take a lie detector test ,and agree to be here?". It was so bad that it reads aloud its suicide letter "Welcome to the Steve Wilkos show!". This show crept into the rivers we call T.V., blackened, made it bitter, fecal matter and rotting flesh raises a green fog bares over it like the very clouds in the sky, for this network shall die.
4 out of 6 people found the following comment useful :-
cruelty to the overweight, 8 May 2008
Author: jacoandloco from United States
I think the way you call people "Fat" all the time is way out of line. I'm 5'5 260 lbs. Call me on your show and call me Fat. They call me Lonnie " By God" Coker. Some of us can't help it, in case you aren't smart enough to realize this, but obesity is a disease. Why don't you call me on your show, and maybe my stepson who is a quadriplegic, or would you call him a gimp? I'll knock you out and he can run you Over with his power chair! I realize the people on your show that you have called fat may have done things wrong in their past, but when the show first starts you have known these people for what? an hour?
Lonnie "Fat Ass" " By God" Coker
5 out of 8 people found the following comment useful :-
Springer can just go do something.., 20 February 2008
Author: mirosuionitsaki2 from United States
*** This comment may contain spoilers ***
What a very interesting show. An ex security guard? I never knew that! Steve Wilkos is an ex security guard for the Jerry Springer show. Instead of seeing daily fights that you used to have to deal with in Jerry Springer around 10 AM or so, you get the host attacking his guests. But, even with the attacking of guests, I do think this is quality television. It's entertaining, even though it is wrong. Not only is he attacking his guests verbally, he is also helping them. Sometimes, you have to yell at someone just to get the stuff you want to tell them in their head. It's like yelling at a school teacher who's a pedophile. "Stop molesting your students! It's wrong!".
Now enough for the summary. Yes, that was a summary. I have more to say. I've only seen one episode of the Steve Wilkos show and it wasn't even the whole episode, but I do know something about the show enough to review it or "comment it". Steve Wilkos is like a lot of these talk shows where the host attempts to help people. But, he's different. Steve Wilkos is a modern superhero. He doesn't seem to care whether or not he's going to blow someone's brains out verbally because he just shouted at them. He's still helping them.
In this era, we as humans enjoy seeing people beat other people up and watching these talk shows about people helping other people. It's entertainment, even though it's wrong. We're just being human. We enjoy something, we do it. Not everyone enjoys these shows, but some do. And we have to ignore the people who tell us not to.
I recommend this show. Watch at least one episode and you will get what I'm trying to say.
6 out of 10 people found the following comment useful :-
Nothing but a bully, 2 March 2008
Author: Scimetar_Northerner
*** This comment may contain spoilers ***
"The Steve Wilkos Show" is nothing but a bully making himself look big and tough in front of a bunch of guests. Steve Wilkos likes to play the cop and ex-marine card a lot on his guests as if that gives him the right to do what he does. Don't get me wrong, I am not condoning any of the guests' actions, but two wrongs don't make a right. Steve seems to think it does. The majority of the show contains Steve just getting mad and bullying his guests. He has chairs put out on his stage and then asks them to stand up and ALWAYS throws the chairs off stage to look tough. Why have chairs if you aren't going to allow the guests to use them? At the end of the show, Steve likes to read e-mails and those that disagree with him (even if they are in a respectful manner) are met with rude comments and are referred to as "morons". Steve's response to these e-mails is that this is "moron free T.V" and that they aren't allowed to watch. Steve also gets off on bullying his own audience at times telling a girl that it is good that she isn't planning on having any children just because she disagreed with him. Steve is nothing more but your stereotypical bully that has his own issues and tries to make himself feel better by picking on others. Any one can tell you that the way Steve deals with his guests is not the right way to solve any of these problems. It honestly dumbfounds me that this show has the number of fans that it does. I think it is sad when a bully is getting honoured and admired. This show is a real backwards step to our society. Hopefully this narcissistic man and his show will be cancelled soon.
7 out of 12 people found the following comment useful :-
Steve wilkos - The father everyone needs to have, 15 February 2008
Author: The_Light_Triton (Black_triton14@hotmail.com) from In a Chair in my room
Steve wilkos has his fans and his haters. I mean, some people have grown up candy coated and stayed that way (unlike me, who grew up candy coated and turned dark and heartless) and those people, who are the candy-coated freaks, hate Steve. they think he's too hard on people, and that he yells in these poor people's faces.
then there's others like me, who think that these child molesters, drug pushers, users, and other worthless trash out there deserve to pee their pants when an angry Ex-cop yells in their face.
OK, now onward to the show's topic. Steve brings out people (usually women at first) who are whining about their husband or boyfriend whose either a child molester, drug user, or abusive partner. while Steve tells them to leave the stage, he brings out the guilty party and talks to them until conflict comes up, and Steve begins yelling and screaming in the guilty one's face, while the audience claps and cheers and enjoys the show.
At the end of the show, Steve answers fan mail (from viewers like you) and others. he usually answers a good one, praising his show for it's good morals and stuff like that, and sends a Steve wilkos show T-shirt to the writer's mailbox, and when he gets a bad letter, he criticizes the sender, usually saying "This is moron-free TV. don't watch my show." While some of the things he says might be a bit dumb (This is moron-free TV, Etc), i consider Steve to be a father figure that everyone should have. if he was the father figure everyone had, then no one would be causing crime, or getting in trouble with the law, or doing any of the things he addresses on his show.
9/10
7 out of 13 people found the following comment useful :-
It certainly isn't Dr. Phil., 21 March 2008
Author: JohnnyHasTheKeys from United States
I have to say I'm not the biggest fan of the Jerry Springer show but I do watch it from time to time and have been familiar with Steve Wilkos for a while. On the Jerry Springer show he seemed like such a great, cool guy. Kind of a knight in shining armor; when he'd go save a lady from an abusive household and such. While on his own show he's a complete Neanderthal. He name calls, throws chairs, and half the time doesn't listen to one word anyone has to say. Not only does he yell at the abusers (which I have no problem with, most of the time they deserve it) but he also berates the victims when they didn't do what Steve believes he would have done in the same situation.
The commercials for the show are almost as bad as the show themselves. They mock every problem from child molestation to drug abuse and domestic violence. It's disgusting. I don't understand how this show can stay on the air.
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