Holly Madison, a Playboy model and former member of Hugh Hefner's harem, stars in this lightweight E! network encore to her previous reality-TV series The Girls Next Door. The sunny blonde anatomical wonder (who admits to plastic surgery) is shown here on billboards throughout Las Vegas as the star of a modern burlesque extravaganza “peep show.” Cameras, sound-effect cues, and overemphatic music follow Madison and her entourage of BFFs, sycophants, and pin-up sisters, both in Vegas for show auditions, workouts, and music video–making, and for trips out of town for a nostalgic reunion with Hef at the Playboy Mansion. The most extreme of the dubious dramatic events involve a boob job and a catfight (not simultaneous) between a mean girl of a Playmate and Holly's ditzy single-mom personal assistant. Meanwhile, formulaic redeeming social value appears in the form of Holly's gay pal, Josh Strickland, an adoptee seeking his South Carolina birth mother with the help of a husband-and-wife team of Detroit detectives. In addition to Hefner, Robin Leach and Carrot Top also appear in guest walk-ons. Unlike the plunging cleavage, Holly's World doesn't go very deep into the real Las Vegas, making this just another rather shallow vanity project. Compiling all 19 episodes from 2009–11, DVD extras include uncensored episodes, deleted scenes, outtakes, and a music video. Optional, at best. (C. Cassady)
Holly's World: The Complete Seasons 1 & 2
MPI, 3 discs, 420 min., not rated, DVD: $29.99 November 7, 2011
Holly's World: The Complete Seasons 1 & 2
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