After watching the latest reality show from Network Ten I now understand why every one always bags out The Shire, or should I say ‘God’s Country’.
Watching it I felt shocked, disturbed, a little violated… More
like watching Chris Lilley’s The Shire.
Even a fictional Ja’mie is a breath of fresh air compared to Sophie and Vernesa.
At least she had some level of intelligence. And rapper Rif Raf from the Shire has
an uncanny likeness to rapper S.Mouse from Angry
Boys. If it wasn’t for the social media frenzy it stirred, one could be
forgiven for mistaking the show for a fictional satire.
Funnily enough, I actually watched The Hills for weeks before realising that it was a reality show. I
didn’t know anything about the show or its stars and just assumed that it was a
teen drama shot in a documentary style. You can’t imagine how shocked I was to
find out they were all real people, and that all the storylines on the show
were also real, that is, until Heidi got a boob job.
But in The Shire,
even the so-called locals aren’t real. Sophie and Vernesa are apparently from Bankstown
and now living in Homebush. That’s about as far from the Shire as you can get
without leaving Sydney. It baffles
me. Did the producers think we wouldn’t notice? Perhaps they just thought they
were too good a talent to miss? Or were they worried about the show not being
multi-cultural enough for the modern Australian audience? Whatever they thought,
they have demonstrated once again, that you can’t fool the audience. Audiences
know crap when they see it.
What really matters is that nobody believed them. Even if a
reality show or dramality’ as the show has been labelled, is semi-scripted, it still
has to be believable. It’s not about what is real or not, it’s about what is
believable. The producers made a fatal mistake including Sophie and Vernesa in
the show because just as the mayor of the Shire, Carol Provan said, they were merely
cardboard cutouts of Kim Kardashian. Caricatures, not characters; some sort of
disfigured specimen of the ridiculous.
But Beckaa? Now there’s an interesting character. She was
real enough for me. Sadly she’s been so overshadowed by Sophie and Vernesa that
no one’s even mentioned her. If they’d just stuck with her I reckon they would
have gotten the trash TV factor just right. She was juicy enough for the whole
show.
Cut
to:
Beckaa,
a spoilt little rich girl with possible daddy issues, two gay best friends who play
with her boobs on camera and then say behind her back that that her new fake
nose makes her look like a pig.
Now that’s great TV!
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