Reality and Streaming television

The following piece was originally posted in two parts on my friend’s excellent blog “Far From Reality”. I wrote this as a response to the insinuation that Netflix hasn’t commissioned a Reality show because Reality television is low-brow and somehow below Netflix. You can read the inspiring post here. If Netflix were to announce a […]

Dance Moms; and the broken promise of reality television

Ultimately, what’s so bothersome about Dance Moms and so much of its ilk is that they aim to confirm biases, not to subvert them. This. Good entertainment surprises us. We don’t need more of the same. Dance Moms; and the broken promise of reality television