Have you ever thought your life would make a great reality show? Well, Alex Kompothecras's dad, Gary, thought his son and his friends would be perfect on-camera, so he hired a producer to actually make it happen. And now, Alex is starring on Siesta Key, MTV’s new reality show from the executive producer of Laguna Beach.

“I go, ‘You guys are really having a hell of a lifestyle,‘” Gary told the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. “I said this would be a good reality show. Plus they’re good kids, so that was the main thing, they weren’t bad kids. I said this would be a good story because when I was growing up, you had Father Knows Best, you had My Three Sons, you had people with values and I didn’t see that in the TV of late.”

Alex Kompothecras stars on MTV’s new reality show "Siesta Key." MTV

Siesta Key, which premieres tonight, features a group of 19- to 25 year-olds living and partying on Siesta Key, an affluent neighborhood in Sarasota, Florida. Alex is the 22-year-old son of Gary Kompothecras, a chiropractor who founded the 1-800-ASK-GARY legal and medical referral service (and who is also trying to build a hotel on Siesta Key, huh). Gary hired a producer to film the antics of his son and his friends — then they pitched it to a production company which eventually turned it into a pilot, a source close to production tells Cosmopolitan.com. MTV then picked up the show to series.

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Unfortunately, critics so far don't agree with Gary's somewhat biased opinion about his son's magnetism. The New York Times wrote:

The show follows the “Laguna Beach” model of languid attitudes and moist visuals, though its protagonists are mostly college-age, which means they can drink on camera. Its pheromonal center is Alex, a lothario with charms that barely register on camera, unless you count the size of his (parents’) house.

Ouch.

Kate Storey Esquire Writer-at-Large Kate Storey is a Writer-at-Large for Esquire covering culture, politics, and style.

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