Ashton Kutcher’s show Pop Fiction has a great premise. It’s basically Punk’d but on the media. The Pop Fiction team plants stories in the tabloids and then watch as we devour it like the greedy bastards we are.

The sad thing is that the premise isn’t served so much on the show. Yes, they got us with Paris and the Shaman, but if you watched the episode, it was more about Paris Hilton talking to the actor who played the Shaman about how crazy the paparazzi are.

Slowly, every segment de-evolves into how “crazy” the paparazzi are, which means Pop Fiction has wholly failed to live up to its potential.

The Paris and Shaman thing was funny because Paris walked around with The Bible after she got released from jail, but was never actually seen reading it. It was a prop for her image, so it would make total sense that she finds a fake Shaman.

Where Pop Fiction could have turned around and offered us actual satire, they have instead decided to focus on little non-stories. This means the show is actually more about showing us the “real” celebrities who are pompously assuming that they are doing this great prank.

And it makes them look worse than the paparazzi ever will.

We know the photographers are bottom feeders, it’s a whole industry of ex-cons and those who are two hops away from flipping burgers.

But we didn’t know Eva Longoria laughs in that annoying way, or that she is an icy bitch all the time:

So while Pop Fiction takes Pop Culture and does absolutely nothing new to it, we’re going to stick with our first Pop Love, Pop Secret.

Mmmm. It has buttery goodness.