Las Vegas Garden of Love

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Las Vegas Garden of Love
Genre Reality television
Country of originUnited States
Original languageEnglish
No. of seasons1
No. of episodes10
Production
Production company Schmaguuli LLC
Original release
Network ABC Family
ReleaseMarch 21 (2005-03-21) 
May 9, 2005 (2005-05-09)

Las Vegas Garden of Love is a reality television series that aired on ABC Family for 10 episodes during the summer of 2005. [1] It was not given a real ending or a second season, due to very low ratings. It was re-run until fall of 2005.

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Reception

The New York Times critic Virginia Heffernan wrote that the television series "looks in this fingernail instant like a 1970's documentary—a staring, verité meditation that will expose the pallid loneliness of the quickie wedding and, in turn, the perfidy of the American dream". [2] Brian Lowry of Variety criticized the show for "exhausting the 'family with weird occupation reality format in record time'", writing, "Someone apparently forgot to watch other reality shows, which capitalize on editing to craft stories." [3]

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