even just the header/subheader combo of "a hunger games reality show could be great. for example, see: when someone tried to do that and it sucked and nobody watched it"
The Hunger Games is supposed to be a horrifying condemnation of commodified violence and a statement about the brutality of class-based spectacle remade as must-see viewing for salivating elites. But for one brief moment in the early 2010s, it also seemed like a pretty decent pitch for a reality show of its own, so that’s exactly what The CW did. And maybe it wasn’t the worst idea.
On the one hand, it’s easy to hand-wring and worry about what all these shows say about society, about how each time we soften dystopian fiction into cuddly evening TV we slip closer to Roman citizens in the Colosseum, but that probably isn’t true.
you can't just say these things!!!!
The real problem with Capture was just that it wasn’t that exciting, which may explain why it only got one season with fairly low ratings.
it's the damnedest thing. we took a concept based entirely on the excitement of brutality and death, removed the brutality and death, and for some reason the excitement went with them. but it would be a good idea if we could find a way to remove the excitement without removing the excitement. and, before you start saying that it says anything about society: it doesn't
