There's a scene near the beginning of the first episode of "Tamar & Vince" (10 tonight, moving to 9 pm Sept. 27, WE tv) that gave me a sense of hope.

It's when the couple hosts a dinner that includes celebrity friends like Duane and Tisha Campbell-Martin and Mary J. Blige and her husband Kendu Issacs. Vince and Tamar talk about the beginnings of their relationship and then Vince asks for advice on making their relationship last. (Mary J. gets to preaching!)

Thank goodness because the rest of the episode is spent in the usual manner: Tamar signifying and talking about herself in the third person, Vince not paying her much attention, walking away exasperated, and them bickering. While the rest of the show makes you think, why are these two together? that early scene reminds you that theirs is a young marriage, just 3 years old. Maybe they can figure it out.

It makes sense that perfectly pleasant "Mary Mary" (10 tonight, We TV) would end up on the same channel as "The Braxtons Family Values" reality show.

After all, they are both about the lives of African-American sisters in entertainment, or as the "Mary Mary" tagline reads: fame, family and chaos.

But the sisters, Erica and Tina Campbell, in "Mary Mary" are not like the Braxtons. Oh sure, at the core, the Braxtons love each other. But man, it's hard to see underneath that thick layer of yelling, eye-rolling, dot.com'ing drama.

I kind of sighed when I first saw previews for "Amsale Girls." (10 tonight, WE tv)

I mean, how many reality shows about wedding dress shops can there be?

But as it turns out, "Amsale Girls" is less about the dresses and more about the business of selling them. That makes it more interesting than the average wedding dress show.

If you're not familiar, Amsale (pronounced Ah-sah-leh) Aberra is an Ethiopia-born designer whose shop is not only known as a top wedding dress destination, but has also gotten business from stars for ball gowns and cocktail dresses. Her wedding dresses run from about $5,000 to $75,000.

There were rumors awhile ago that comedian Sinbad was dead.

Nope.

Just like his network pal Toni Braxton (see above), he just went bankrupt.

Since then, he's been working his way back and revamping his life.

He remarried his wife, and after losing his house, moved back in with her and his grown children.

That's the starting point of "Sinbad: It's Just Family" (We TV, 10 tonight), a cute little venture that plays more like sitcom than a reality show.

That Toni Braxton is starring in a reality show isn't that shocking. After all, lately her life seems a bit like a soap opera.

The Grammy-winning singer has been bankrupt twice, had heart problems (health issues sparked the last bankruptcy, she's said), discovered her son has autism, and split from her husband after a much-talked about award show kiss (Although the two weren't related).

But "Braxton Family Values" (We TV, 9 tonight), as the title suggests, doesn't just feature Toni. She's got four sisters (and a divorced mom), and they've got plenty of fodder for TV too. After watching the premiere episode I'd say among the things the Braxton family values are yelling and crying.

There have often been complaints that reality shows don't really dwell in reality, and that's most often true.

But I'd say that "Downsized" (WE TV, 9 tonight) offers a strong and painful dose of reality, revealing what it's like when the economy crashes and takes your life with it.

That's what happened to Laura and Todd Bruce, an Arizona couple with seven children, when Todd's contracting business fell apart. (Laura works as a first-grade teacher making less than $40,000 a year.) They've exhausted all their savings, even their retirement funds. When the first episode of the eight hour-long series begins, they have already lost their house and are living in a rental, and they're days away from not making the rent there. They are also on food stamps.

There just can't be too many makeover shows. You know it's true: most of us have no idea how to dress. Some of us are criminally deficient when it comes to style.

Like the women in the photo. I truly believe jail time is in order. She's one of the mothers featured in the new mother-daughter makeover show "You're Wearing That?!? (WE tv, 10 tonight). She has a nice figure, sure, but she's 54. And she's raising a daughter. Her complaint about her daughter's clothes? "She looks cheap."

Thankfully, host and stylist Luciene Salomone comes to the rescue. The format isn't radical; Salomone comes in to the home, meets the mother and daughter, and asks to see two of the outfits they'd wear for certain occasions. The mother gets to comment on the daughter and vice versa. That's how the shopping goes too; each gets to shop for the other, using the tips Salomone has shared.