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Monday, June 28, 2010

VH1 adds yet another classy reality tv show to their lineup- You're Cut Off





Nine privileged narcissists are knocked down a peg or two after their families enroll them in a reality check bootcamp.

It’s one dilemma for the girls after another:
1.Nine women, under the guise of starring in VH1’s new reality show highlighting their lavish lifestyles, The Good Life, are in for a rude awakening. Each one aghast to find their credit cards declined during their daily shopping spree.

2.The women “coincidentally” meet each other at the customer service kiosk in the mall to complain about their decline credit cards.

3.The host, a lifestyle coach, reveals to the women they have been ambushed. Their families have turned the money hungry mooches over to the professional to set them straight. They have been sentenced to an 8 week lifestyle boot camp, a last effort to check their egocentric ways.


Clip 4 (Here is a clip of women attempting to explain themselves to life coach)VH1 was only website that offered clips of show, but wouldn't allow embedding)


4. The girls cry and whine and swear revenge on their families for cutting them off from their trust funds. The princesses are brought back down to Earth a bit when faced with reality that parents and husbands are no longer willing to fund their shopping addictions or turn the other cheek to their selfish attitudes.

5. The drama begins after the girls find out they are not being escorted to their new home in a limo like other reality shows, but in a mini-van. The horrors! They consider their transportation to be far beneath them and vocalize their extreme dissatisfaction.

6. Transported in the abomination that is a mini-van, they are let down, yet again, when they see the “shack of a house” they’re forced to live in. What most people would consider a normal, middle-class home, these privileged women deem a shack. One woman insists that her house maid would not live in a house so decrepit. (there is a picture of house at the top of the blog, doesn’t really deserve dump status, huh?)

7. And get this! The girls to cook their own food! Most of the women don’t know how to cook or refuse to cook; so they are limited to cigarettes and boxed wine. And just to reiterate how they are going to start living more modestly, they are supplied with a box of wine. After all, it wouldn’t be a trashy reality show without excessive alcohol consumption.

8. Needless bickering and petty arguments soon ensue after “fake girls” and “bitchy girls” are immediately targeted. Alliances are drawn, setting the stage for the upcoming drama that will likely transpire throughout the season.



Clip displaying the cattiness:
Jaqueline Remarks That Gia Looks Like A Basset Hound: "Gia is a wife and mother from Sherman Oaks, California, who has never changed her baby's diaper or woken up to feed her in the middle of the night."


9. As the season progresses, the women are going to be taught a thing or two by taking on demanding jobs. But will they take what they learn to heart, merely go through the motions, or refuse to cooperate?...We shall see.

All in all, You’re Cut Off is another predictable reality featuring spoiled, childish people with no appreciable concept of real life.

1 comment:

  1. Another one, huh? It seems to me that the time for these kinds of shows is quickly coming to an end. In this climate, it's not really entertaining to see spoiled people act terribly. It's even wearing thin for me and that's saying something.

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