Main cast: Robby Benson (Bart Allen), Hodan Siad (Adara Nasser), and Page Fletcher (The Hitchhiker)
Director: Franck Apprederis
Well, Bart Allen is indeed a Tourist Trap for ladies that step into the land of the Eiffel Tower. He plays the lovelorn local that will offer these ladies a fling to remember, and along the way, he’d do things like steal their purses, etc, because that’s how he rolls.
Mind you, I find him to be as artificial and smarmy as can be, but since this is a show. he manages to effortlessly reel in his victims like an expert angler.
That is, until he sets his sights on Adara, a new arrival in town. Will he succeed with her, or will she be the end of his career?
It’s been a while since I took a good look at Page Fletcher, and now that I’m in the middle of the final season, let me take a closer look… yikes. He looks aged, and there’s even a noticeable gut. Still, it’s okay. Years of being on this show can take a toll on the mind and hence the body, and soon he will be free and can take steps to be hot again.
Is he on any other shows? Let me check IMDB, hold on.
Oh dear, there’s nothing else of note. Still, I guess I will always have the rubbing butt cheeks in the opening credits to remember him by.
Back to this episode, Robby Benson has a smoldering, brooding look that makes him very pleasant to look at, but he is bogged down with some of the worst, corniest lines ever and his delivery of those lines is equally awful.
Still, the camera lingers on his shirtless body, his jeans hanging low, like he’s the star of some soft porn movie, so I suppose that goes some way to make up from the cringe caused by every instance he opens his mouth.
The twist is sort of predictable, as it plays on an unfortunate stereotype of tourists from the Middle-East, but it adds a nice layer of comeuppance for a smug snake oil salesman that can’t resist checking out his reflection on any reflective surface he comes across.
So yes, this is another episode set in Paris that is shockingly not terrible, a far cry from those Parisian episodes of the previous episode. All in all, this is a pretty decent bad apology for that season!
