missarissa The show was at least semi a entertaining when the other guy was hosting it. The older, gray haired guy. He was actually a very good host and knew how to act in front of a camera. Clark gable however is HORRIBLE!!! That crap he does with his hands, waving them around in circles in the air, while he is talking, is horrendous! Where the heck did he learn that?!?! Well he needs to stop this and get into a different line of work because he has ruined the show. As for the rest of the taping, it is a mildly entertaining script with a sometimes exciting plot line. If your thing is peeping into the lives of sad sorry gulable people that choose to go out with people that use and abuse them, then this is the show for you.

jlthornb51 If this show was truly based in reality, it would be about as sick as any form of "entertainment" good be since Emperor Claudius gave thumbs down to the gladiators. Since it is faked and scripted, it just qualifies as stomach turning, ugly, and astonishingly unpleasant. Suitable viewing for people with an IQ's lower than 50 and those so culturally illiterate they believe professional wrestling is legitimate as well as spellbinding. Anyone with any sophistication, intelligence, or even some fundamental literacy will most likely find the participants in this vile fiesta just stupidly tragic and utterly repulsive. Usually on cable at 2 a.m., this is sure to give anyone unable to sleep severe waking nightmares and violent nausea. Regretfully, the notorious stabbing of the host while taping was as fake as the other episodes in this sad sadomasochistic catastrophe.

fedor8 I'm not bothered by the sleazy hosts, nor am I bothered by the cynical, self-righteous stance the makers of this crap take.What I AM bothered about is that the vast majority of the episodes are fake. I wouldn't even be surprised if ALL of the episodes were staged. Hence this isn't a reality show but something far worse even than Oprah: garbage television with zero comma zero appeal. Like daily TV soap opera but with more action and fighting and less plot.The premise would have turned out great - if only it had been executed without cheating the viewer. If only this idea were free of all the legal complications/trappings that would most certainly ensue due to what would happen with real people, and what is eventually aired. Hence the only way to create this """reality show""" was to get some rather desperate actors and make them improvise (and what pitiful and unconvincing improvisation it is most of the time!). Shouldn't this be obvious to anyone who finished grade school? Most reviews I read here don't even mention that any of this is fake, let alone that all of it might be. Wishful thinking or just boundless naivety? The actors hired in this pathetic show are the kind of bottom-of-the-barrel unemployed actors who are miserably waiting on tables, waiting eagerly for a call from a talk show (or this crap), which is when they finally get a chance to make several hundred bucks. I even recognized one actress (in the role of "cheater") that I saw years earlier in "The Jerry Springer Show". And I only saw 6-7 episodes of "Cheaters". How many more of these loser actors are there that appeared in Springer and "Cheaters" that I don't even know about?However, to compare "Cheaters" with Springer isn't fair to the latter. The Springer show is not all fake; a bulk of the episodes are unstaged - hence often highly entertaining. There is no value to be found in "Cheaters", unless you're a struggling actor and want to get tips on how NOT to act in front of the camera.The producers use various (very cheap, transparent) tricks to create the illusion of realness, to give their footage that elusive documentary feel. But it's all in vein. In the end, the more intelligent train-wreck-seeking viewer is left with absolutely squat. "Professional wrestling" has more credibility than this.

Russ T. This is perhaps the best reality show on TV. This is true drama. Human beings at their worst. Men and Women behaving like children and most of them not even caring. Shows you that you can sometimes never really trust the person who's supposed to have your back. Love it. The music, the voice-over artist, the commitment to form - every show has the "deceptive lover/husband/wife" lying on the phone. I don't understand why there are so many negative reactions to this show. I'm sick of seeing the same cookie-cutter cute people running around having fun and being stupid because they can't communicate their feeling or intentions. With Cheaters - we have all sorts of people who are in that place that we all fear to be in: Infidelity. Where a person who has given into that mental illness called love which requires you to open yourself up to being hurt by another person - and gets hurt by that person. It sucks that with the FCC crap they have blurred out the cheating couples even more. You don't have any idea what "position" they're in. Once again, great show.