About that Survivor casting- September 20, 2006 you know, if you're going to cast a show along ethnic lines, it seems pretty lousy to pack two teams with A players and the other two with a lot of duds. that white team has one jock, though hard to say yet how smart he is, and i don't see a lot of other potential. the sorority girl and the "alternative" "rollergirls" are likely to be worthless on all fronts. they always cast dorks with little to offer as writers (bastards!). seems pretty weak.the black team was the only one with zero apparent..http://blogs.salon.com/0001137/categories/realityTv/2006/09/19.html#a1882 Survivor goes racist- September 20, 2006 I would say, no. I thought the early protests about dividing the show into racialethnic teams was a little premature: why not see what they do with it, whether it's revelatory or racist. So far, so good. Though some of the casting aspects have always sickened me. (More on that in the next post.) These comments made real-time as I watched Thursday (I just can't stop myself), posted now: I just started watching the first ep, and I literally get the chills at the beginning. I will get irritated as.http://blogs.salon.com/0001137/categories/realityTv/2006/09/19.html#a1881 Amazing Race, revived- September 20, 2006 god knows why those emmy morons gave the reality-show award to amazing race, a once-great show that turned in two pitifully boring seasons this year. (especially when project runway was the best show of any genre on TV all summer--except maybe the colbert report.) the family edition was a disaster, the challenges had grown easy, the show predictable, and the crucial casting element just awful--way too much stunt-casting with way too many brands of nasty shouters, no one actually interesting,...http://blogs.salon.com/0001137/categories/realityTv/2006/09/19.html#a1879 |