Heidi Montag and Spencer Pratt are on again/off again all season, with Spencer putting the moves on a bartender named Stacie and Heidi getting fed up, fleeing to her home in Colorado, and finally insisting they go to couple's therapy. Sadly, they work things out and Spencer becomes a changed man (sure, he does), turning into the kind of son-in-law Heidi's mom, Darlene, really wants. He even goes the extra mile for Heidi and calls LC to apologize and asks her to please come to the wedding, because it means so much to Heidi. In the end, LC does the noble thing and attends the wedding, only to scurry off afterwards into a limo and presumably off to her "new life." Since Heidi practically stalked her all season, trying to make nice, it was probably easiest to simply attend the wedding.
Audrina Patridge finally dumps skeazy, commitment-phobe boyfriend Justin/Bobby and decides to move on. During an impromptu girls' weekend to Hawaii designed specifically to crash the "boys only" weekend trip with Frankie Delgado, Brody Jenner and company, Audrina "hooks up" with Brody by spending the night in his room, supposedly talking all night. Brody claims to have cheated on his psycho girlfriend, Jayde, when his friends question him the next morning, but Audrina indicates to LC and Lo that nothing really happened. Brody decides that his relationship with Jayde is more important than his friendship with Audrina, so he spends the rest of the season snubbing Audrina, while Jayde makes threats and says ugly things to her. Dramarama! The final blow to Audrina is the return of The Hills alum and resident troublemaker, Kristin Cavallari, who makes a surprise comeback by attending the wedding of the year and sitting next to - you guessed it - Justin/Bobby! Poor Audrina.
Special features include deleted scenes, a featurette on the Season 5 photo shoot, one on the wedding itself, a few weird "remixes" that are hardly tolerable, a brief MTV interview with Lauren Conrad, plus some heftier interviews with Lauren, Heidi and Audrina. These were actually pretty good and are worth watching. Since this is just a volume of the season and not the entire season, I found it really flew by for me and I watched it in just two days. Naturally, most of the drama surrounds the wedding and, sadly, Heidi goes through with it, marrying that creepy jerk of a guy with the blonde fuzz-beard, Spencer. Truly, this show abounds with vapidity, but I have never seen two people more phony than Heidi and Spencer. This is the most unrealistic "reality" show I have ever seen, but it certainly is entertaining, I'll give it that. Seriously, who jaunts off for an unplanned weekend to Hawaii or wears millions of dollars worth of diamonds on their wedding day? Not the people I know, anyway. But the entertainment value is still as strong as it ever was. If you've been following the show, you'll definitely want to see what happens next, but I'd suggest renting over purchasing, since the special features don't really add that much value to it and you'll really only want to see the show once.
