Wednesday, September 19, 2007

More Commentary on Kid Nation


Last month I had some rude things to say about CBS' new reality show, Kid Nation:

Is Kid Nation the bottom of the barrel for Reality Television?

In the intervening time, there has been no small amount of anguished commentary on the Intar-Webs about this latest low-water mark. By far though, the most insightful article comes from humor site Something Awful.com.

Kid Nation Predictions *Warning! Spoilers*

It's no secret that reality television producers have been scraping the marrow of the barrel. They've been doing that since the first boiled horse anus passed between the glossed lips of a Playboy Playmate on Fear Factor. Now CBS television has reached a new and abyssal low with their latest offering.
Kid Nation, debuting this Wednesday, excretes 40 children between the ages of 8 and 15 into a "ghost town" in the middle of nowhere for a duration of 40 days. Together, mostly without adult supervision, they'll have to figure out how to live and rule over a suspiciously theme park like Wild West town stocked with jars of candy and tumbleweeds. According to the Wikipedia article on the taping of the show's first season, it also came fully stocked with unmarked bottles of bleach ready to quench children's thirst.
You have to give CBS a lot of credit for this ingenious idea, because no one is known for being more level-headed or less prone to violence than children. They're always rational and they never punch, hit, claw, bite, or spit on each other.


Read the whole thing, it's worth it.

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1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Just because Lord of the Flies was a great read, it doesn't mean we have to bring it to life.

Please please please, don't let the TV Execs read Soylent Green.

-CF