Wednesday, February 27, 2008
This is where we interview students who look the same.
Admittedly, I’m not the demo, by a few years or gender. But after watching the trailer for WE’s High School Confidential, this feels like the OC all over again. While the issues faced by each of the students may be important and very real to them, the approach feels like Oliver Stone: take every odd, traumatic, controversial thing that may have happened at one time or another and cram them all together like they happen daily. Average high school experience? Not really. No doubt teen angst nation will love it though. And good thing the students don’t all look alike either. Wouldn’t want to reinforce media perceptions of image much. Although, Dove, you watching? Bet you already are. I can just smell the ‘real beauty’ spots for this one.
Curious: what’s the minimum age now for taping life’s worst moments? Will the next show be Pre-School Rehab, sponsored by Graco?
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It is pretty ironic that "reality television" has become a buffer from the reality it tries to portray. Editting together a string of "real" moments makes it all quite fictitious - thus escapism. A reality we can watch to escape our own unedited realities.
I wonder what a little MTV editing would do for my life? Turn it into this, no doubt.
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