Shows I'm Watching on Television Right Now - Beyond Scared Straight on A&E
Beyond Scared Straight is Generation Y's version of Generation X's Scared Straight and it is just as good, just not wholly-original. Get familiar with the program and you can't help but feel hope that these kids are going to turn their lives around by having the ever-living shit scared out of them by 'dudes' who are doing t-i-m-e - TIME . Hard time. Cautionary tale time.
The best/worst part is the end when they give the follow-up to what happened to the kids after their encounter on the program. Usually comes out in thirds -
- 1/3 of the kids completely change and are scared straight,
- 1/3 are kind of scared straight but still kinda fucking around,
- 1/3 immediately got back into trouble and are now locked-up.
2 Comments:
Wasn't it a show like this that brought the name salad tosser into the average household a little more than a decade ago?
Here is my idea for a reality show, The Long Walk based on the Stephen King book. Start with 100 late teen to early 20's somethings and just have them walk while maintaining a speed of 4 miles per hour. Sure you can't shoot them dead like in the book, but you can eliminate them when they fall below 4 MPH. The winner is the last one standing. Is it any more exploitative than the reality stuff that is on now?
December 16, 2011 at 12:38 PM
Nice, Jan. Friend of blog PW has me convinced to get "Breaking Bad" on DVD. It's next up on the Netflix Queue. Also, my buddies here in SF are raving about "the league", which is loosely about a bunch of guys in a fantasy football league, but apparently that is not at all central to the plot, so wives actually like it too.
Any thoughts?
December 19, 2011 at 4:41 PM
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