Thursday, July 19, 2007

Kid Nation - another awful CBS show

So, I guess CBS hasn't learned from the failure of this summer's show, Ass Pirates, er, I mean, Pirate Master. They have another doomed to fail show on the fall lineup called Kid Nation. The narrator of the commercial solemnly hypothesizes that maybe, just maybe, in all of our thousands of years of civilization, it's kids that have all of the answers and can create & function in a civil society & maybe it's us fucked up grownups that have fucked up the world. The show will explore a society created & lived in by multi-ethnic, diverse kids & see what the outcome will be.
Yeah, right. Putting my anti-kids bias aside, I think that we can draw a few conclusions on this "social experiment" before the show airs.
1) This show will suck. Big time. Worse than the Caveman show. 2) That in true CBS's Survivor fashion, this show is probably being filmed on some lot - with schools, parents & McDonald's nearby- not in Wyoming's wilderness or some other obscure place. Because if this show were real, they'd have to deal with a few things, like how are these kids going to feed themselves? Has anyone taken a kid to overnight camp? In reality, half of the kids would be in tears at the thought of being left by themselves. I'm supposed to believe that a bunch of kids that are probably incapable of blowing their own noses and/or bed wetters are going to teach us adults some valuable life lessons?3) Ummm, have these producers not read Lord of the Flies? Have you been out on a school yard without adult supervision? Kids are more violent than adults. Kids will walk over to someone else & take what they want if another kid is holding it. Adults are the ones that are enforcing the manners, not kids.
I know how the show will end, but inevitably, it's not going to end the way I want it to- with a bunch of hungry, cranky, afternoon nap-deprived kids savagely picking on the smaller, weaker kids chanting "kill the pig! kill the pig!" until the producers knock the walls down on the set and their parents come running to the rescue.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

kids are jerks