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A new reality TV dating show is coming to Denver, Colorado, Wooking For Love, and open casting is already being held. This project was essentially created after the popular reality TV show Love is Blind came to Denver and was a massive flop because the couples were uninteresting and didn’t last so someone had the brilliant idea to take Denver’s wookiest creatures and put them together.
For the uninitiated, a Wook or Wookie, can refer to a lot of different types of individuals but essentially it is a person whose life revolves round music festival, jam band, and/or EDM culture. The type of person whose job exists only so they can fund their concert-going exploits. On top of that, they might dress a certain way or have characteristic hair (dreadlocks). And the name of course is a reference to the hairy Wookies on Star Wars.
There are a few pockets of America where wookies can be found in abundance, where they flock instinctively like the Salmon of Capistrano. Denver, Boulder, Asheville, Portland, Eugene, Burlington, Austin, Berkeley, to name a few of these Meccas of Wookdom.
‘Wooking for Love’ is Coming to Denver
With the tagline ‘Find Your Forever Groundscore,’ a nod to finding free drugs on the ground at a festival or show, Wooking For Love put out an open casting call on its website. They describe this project as “a reality dating show born in the heart of festival culture. From jam to EDM and everywhere in between.”
Almost immediately, they make it clear that this won’t be a typical dating show. Throuples will be welcome and encouraged. The show’s description goes on to describe itself as “where the bass drops and hearts connect. Couples AND throuples navigate festival-themed challenges to find their forever love story.”
The project will seek to merge “the chaos and beauty of Denver’s festival scene with the emotional vulnerability of a modern love story.” This is, of course, a daily challenge for singles in the dating scene across Denver where music is central to many people’s lives.
Colorado’s funny that way. You will have wooks living side-by-side with ultra runners, people training for Ironman races, and some of the wealthiest individuals in America whose lives revolve around skiing and moving between their ski-in/ski-out chalets.
What Will The Wooks Be Doing?
The show will apparently revolve around ‘festival themed challenges.’ There will be 16 contestants, presumably 8/8 male/female but that could be a foolish assumption on my part.
Each will complete these festival themed challenges in hopes of finding “their forever festival partner.”
Those festival challenges will include things like “Flow Art Choreography (Poi, hoops, and fans in perfect harmony), Stage-Hand Production (Make the magic happen—build the vibes, earn the trust), Railride to Sunrise (Test the limits of lifestyle stamina—and their connections), and more.”
It is not often that I get to say this, but my culture is not your costume. As someone who has been entrenched in the Jam Band scene for over half of my lifetime, I’ve been living side by side with Wooks for decades. I catch the infamous Wook Flu from them every New Year’s during the Phish run at Madison Square Garden. I’ve purchased homemade pizzadillas, t-shirts, heady grilled cheese, and tickets from them on Shakedown Street since I was a teenager.
How could watching people who dance like this NOT make for insanely good reality TV?!
Am I serious about the whole ‘my culture is not your costume‘ thing? No. Of course not. I think this will easily be the most entertaining reality TV dating show ever conceived of and the real world is not ready for a show like Wooking for Love because they have no clue how entertaining it can be just watching Wooks try and complete the simplest of tasks while they’re spun on the tail end of a 4-week tour.
Anyone who thinks they would be a good fit for Wooking For Love, or anyone who simply wants to see if they’d get a call back, is welcome to apply on the TV show’s website where open casting has begun.