Scripted 'Reality' shows!
TV production is suffering from an imagination drought. Reality TV accells because the regular scripted characters aren't believable enough to actually pay much attention to. These Hollywood hacks are regurgitating classics because they can't even come up with a new idea. Dukes of Hazzard? Hawaii 5-0? The A-Team? GIVE ME A FUCKING BREAK!!! I don't mind if you take an old idea and give it a massive kick in the ass edge like they did with Battlestar Galactica. But these hacks are bringing it back just to make it Vanilla Shitty.
Anyways...not getting mired in this topic. Moving forward....
So there is this excellent reality show on History channel called 'Pawn Stars'. The guys aren't too pretty but they are all real characters. A lot of it is scripted to some extent but enough of who they are shines through and makes for entertaining watching.
Moving on....
Enter 'Hacks' from TLC. They have come up with their own 'reality tv show' called 'Pawn Queens'. It's apparently about a pawn shop that serves only women....because when you are struggling in business you can afford to turn half of your potential customers away at the door based on sex. As unbelievable as this premise is, it's actually believable compared to the characters.
One thing I can say about the women in this show is that they are pretty. They either have personalities of a damp sponge in a paper bag or the acting skill that would give most porn stars an oscar by comparisson. The owner of the pawn shop is a guy. In the episode I saw, he 'forgot' that he had sent a $5000 ring to a jeweller for cleaning. Yeah that happens to me all the time. To be clear, this isn't a franchise...this is one struggling shop where they said paying out the 5 grand would 'ruin' them. Oh...except in the next scene where they paid 23k for a classic car. Hmmm.
So the retarded gnome who made this show has both no imagination or recourse to logic. Nice! Seriously I want to meet you so that I can mock you in person and under your radar.
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I've been checking out the Web and it looks like this Pawn shop is the real deal. I don't know how there could be such gross imbalances of logic except one thought. The director tried to make drama where none previously existed. This process made the employees look stupid or the congruity illogical. This wasn't just an error. This was its own farce.
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