Fun with Exploitation
Happy Monday campers, hope all was well in your neck of the woods. They were pretty ecstatic in Columbus all weekend. And if you don’t know why, then obviously college football is not your bag.
Enough pleasantries. The title of this post might be somewhat befuddling, though I suppose all television could be considered exploitation on some level. But auctioning off immigrants desperate to stay in the US legally for the sake of some absurd reality series is probably the biggest indicator that the strike needs to end as soon as possible.
Yes indeed, the concept is being shopped around to all the networks. And if you think for a second FOX isn’t going to adopt this series, you’re kidding yourselves. This is right up there alley. Does it have a subtle conservative tinge to it? Check. Is it shallow and absolutely degrading to its participants? Check. And, last but not least, would the dumbest fuck you know regal the show’s happenings the following day? Check.
The future of television lies in this picture. My money is on the bear.
If that doesn’t sound like a FOX reality series, then I don’t know what does. And in the sake of fairness, it bares mentioning that they have yet to sell the series, but pardon me for jumping the gun. If shows like “Man vs. Beast”, “The Littlest Groom” and “My Big Fat Obnoxious Fiance” can all get picked up by the network to denigrate US citizens, then I have no doubt they’ll do the same to immigrants, legal or otherwise.
Back shortly with something a little more encouraging.
December 3rd, 2007 at 12:44 pm
[...] the involved parties. So, keep on keeping on, Kid Nation. this is obviously the type of series that we thought would show up on FOX, but CBS really stepped up to the plate on this one; lowering the bar for standards just a little [...]