Tuesday - February 02, 2010
Psychotic Annoyance TV
Cindy and Heather and Katie are all pregnant! Their lives are a mess! If Katie “wins” she can really use the prize money; that’s why she got pregnant. Which one should get the abortion? You decide! VOTE NOW!!!
How’s that for Concept TV? Gosh, you think they’re doing it just to piss EVERYONE off?
Turning abortion into an online game show
By Kathleen Parker
Sunday, January 31, 2010At first glance, bump-the-show sounds like a reasonable response to “Bump,” the show—a new, faux-reality Web-based docudrama featuring actors trying to decide whether to have an abortion.
Think Jerry Springer meets Oprah meets “American Idol” meets Dr. Oz meets . . . America’s conscience. For the decision to abort or not to abort is up to you, dear audience.
Has the shark just jumped the shark?
The idea for the “show,” which launches Monday, was inspired, of all things, by Barack Obama’s commencement address at Notre Dame University last year. When the president said he wanted “to find ways to communicate about a workable solution to the problem of unintended pregnancies,” executive producer Dominic Iocco conceived “Bump.”
He and co-executive producer Christopher Riley want to see whether stories can succeed where four decades of rhetoric and politics have failed. They fashioned their experiment in a way that would be most appealing to the wired, reality-show generation.
I’d make some remark about Hollywood scraping the bottom of the barrel, but that would be rather trite. But, O.M.G!! Is this where the edge of the “annoyance art” universe is? Is this just soooooooo trendy as to be outside the comprehension of anyone over 22 who doesn’t live in LA? Or is this actual entertainment for a generation of soulless zombies, for whom human life is utterly meaningless, and this is actually a sitcom to them? This seems just half a step away from Running Man, or throwing Christians to the lions. Only half a step.
Ok, maybe two steps, since the “actresses” aren’t actually pregnant. But the concept is chilling. YOU are Caeser. Thumb up, or thumb down? Harden the populace to other’s suffering. No compassion, just death. Load up the Carousel as fast as you can. And give Obama the credit! Death Panels, indeed.
Or is the concept actually valid? Break the taboo, get it all out in the open, force the discussion. Do we need to do that? Seems to me for 37 years we’ve had very vocal opponents on both edges, while the vast majority dwelt somewhere in the middle, realizing that this was a maximum private personal issue, and just kept their mouths shut. But maybe we need to drag it out once again, and get everybody all worked up. Everybody. Because, you know, we’ve solved all the other problems in life and politics, and we need some kind of distraction. Things are just too boring these days.
Posted by Drew458
on 02/02/2010 at 05:42 PM
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