What is good? What is bad? What qualifies as excellent, reaching, existential content that allows one who experiences it to grow and change, to become a better person, and in doing so, reflect a little on the world, and society upon which they live, struggle, and hopefully thrive? NOT. THIS. SHOW. This show.... is just.... hot, hot garbage. MTV and VH1, just cranking out ALL the reality TV show hits. Well, it's over folks, five weeks, five reality TV shows and the Get Real Edition comes to a resounding conclusion in Sixteen and Pregnant. The show where you could very easily show an unsought upon challenge being thrust upon the live's of unprepared individuals who come together as friends, family, and a community to make the sacrifices and put in the hard work necessary to bring a new life into this world. Again: THIS. IS. NOT. THAT. SHOW. No, instead, listen along as we debate Nietzsche's Abyss, the life skills of the modern 16 year old, and why does MTV seem to literally refuse to point their cameras (or maybe the potatoes they're filming out of) at anything even resembling good story? 16 and Pregnant is chalk full of empty platitudes, meltdowns over the Ford Focus, and of course: good ol fashioned butt porn. Well, not this episode, but it's kind of like watching the slow moving steam roller from Austin Powers seeing this girl be pregnant and know that inevitably she gets rammed by James Deen and, apparently, it gets watched 68 million times on the internet.
Tune in each Monday as we choose a new show and make more wildly inaccurate assumptions. Okay byeeeeee.
