The Awl http://www.theawl.com/ Be Less Stupid Thu, 16 Jul 2009 11:39:24 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.2 'Miami Social' Really Is "Stupid," Says Its Greenlighter, So Why The Heck.... http://www.theawl.com/2009/07/miami-social-really-is-stupid-says-its-greenlighter http://www.theawl.com/2009/07/miami-social-really-is-stupid-says-its-greenlighter#comments Thu, 16 Jul 2009 11:39:24 +0000 Choire Sicha http://www.theawl.com/2009/07/miami-social-really-is-stupid-says-its-greenlighter THE RELEVANT PARTS OF THE CAST OF MIAMI SOCIAL"I actually think MIAMI SOCIAL is the perfect summer show. It's stupid and sexy fun," blogged Bravo exec and, uh, blogger Andy Cohen (who I find actually very hilarious) on Tuesday. Hrrm! Why you wanna put stupid things on the air? This show is so stupid (HOW STUPID IS IT?) that I won't even put a clip of it up on this website. And I mention this only because I am only now reading the rather amazing, hilarious Times review of the horrible show.

But nothing so far has managed to capture the most gruesomely distasteful aspects of the city's aimless capitalism quite like "Miami Social" (beginning on Tuesday), the newest reality series from Bravo, the cable channel that is subversively summoning Americans to proletarian revolt. If you listen to the reunion show of "The Real Housewives of New Jersey" backward, you will hear a call to arms: "Join brothers and sisters in tearing down the onyx and the chandeliers." Bravo is not run by faceless executives; it is run by the ghost of Joe Hill.

Let us see. Everyone thinks your show is despicable. You think the show is stupid. AND YET THERE IT IS ON TV, STUPIDING UP THE AIRWAVES.

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]]> THE RELEVANT PARTS OF THE CAST OF MIAMI SOCIAL"I actually think MIAMI SOCIAL is the perfect summer show. It's stupid and sexy fun," blogged Bravo exec and, uh, blogger Andy Cohen (who I find actually very hilarious) on Tuesday. Hrrm! Why you wanna put stupid things on the air? This show is so stupid (HOW STUPID IS IT?) that I won't even put a clip of it up on this website. And I mention this only because I am only now reading the rather amazing, hilarious Times review of the horrible show.

But nothing so far has managed to capture the most gruesomely distasteful aspects of the city's aimless capitalism quite like "Miami Social" (beginning on Tuesday), the newest reality series from Bravo, the cable channel that is subversively summoning Americans to proletarian revolt. If you listen to the reunion show of "The Real Housewives of New Jersey" backward, you will hear a call to arms: "Join brothers and sisters in tearing down the onyx and the chandeliers." Bravo is not run by faceless executives; it is run by the ghost of Joe Hill.

Let us see. Everyone thinks your show is despicable. You think the show is stupid. AND YET THERE IT IS ON TV, STUPIDING UP THE AIRWAVES.

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