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Herc’s Seen The CW’s HIGH SOCIETY!!
I am – Hercules!!
“High Society” is a reality show about horrible rich Manhattanites in the orbit of a recently divorced 34-year-old handbag designer in the process of moving from Upper East Side to Midtown. To my eyes it is considerably less tedious and slightly less inauthentic than the MTV hit “The Hills,” which covers the same territory on the West Coast (and typically pulls a bigger audience that a lot of shows on the CW).
If you like "The Hills" or "Jersey Shore" or "The Real Housewives," I suspect you'll like this as well. And it could prove a good companion for “America’s Next Top Model,” which precedes it.
Entertainment Weekly says:
… Sorry, Upper East Siders, real society would never be so trashy. …
The New York Daily News says:
… Not all Mortimer's posse seems shallow or unpleasant. But collectively they feel like the characters from all those nasty and wonderful 1960s Rolling Stones songs about neurotic rich girls. If only they were as interesting. … In the end, this is a drama we can live without.
The Los Angeles Times says:
… I will do them the favor of not believing them to be quite as bad as they appear, but even so it takes work to see them as anything but totally pathetic gasbags. … Well, I may just be a cranky old dude, but I am not charmed by this stuff; Spencer Pratt is just a prat to me, and though I wish you well, Tinsley, in your new life, I will be happy to think no more about your friends, starting now.
The Chicago Sun-Times says:
Having watched at least every female-oriented reality show of this century and the last, I can tell you this: In America, the most privileged heiress is just as insecure, self-absorbed, ill-mannered, vapid, loathsome and desperate as any "Flavor of Love" reject. These reality shows have something to teach us, and it's this: our common denominator is far lower than we feared. …
The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette says:
… an awful show about awful people. … Yes, I understand the appeal of this type of show is that it allows the viewer to feel superior to the people on screen. But is our collective self-esteem really so low to warrant giving these horrible people air time? Simply put, they do not deserve a TV platform to showcase their boorish behavior and they're certainly not worthy of viewers' attention.
The Hollywood Reporter says:
… drek-tastic … Clearly, the only function of the show is to make Tinsley (who runs a handbag company) look like a valuable, upright member of society. …
Variety says:
… wants to be "Sex and the City" on the cheap, but every beat of the first two episodes is as subtle as a poke (or in one case, an errantly thrown glass of whiskey) in the eye. Mostly, you'll laugh, you'll cry, you'll wish this generation's parents had practiced birth control more aggressively. …
9:30 p.m. Wednesday. The CW.
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Mar 10, 2010 7:08:13 AM CST
Slowly reaching the point where people get killed on TV
by bullet_time_facehugger
You know George Carlin was right. Why not start with this show? At the end of each episode, they'd all walk down one of those airport moving walkways that leads right into a meat grinder. They can even take their designer hand bags!
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I just can't stand it anymore. It makes me physically ill that people actually give this much ANY attention, even if it's supposedly just to make fun of it. People out there working their ass off in real jobs barely getting by, and the hardly functioning retards of the Jersey Shore will be getting $10k per episode. I'm ashamed to be American.
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We don't give a fuck! AICN really needs a new article section.Cuz I like you guys, here's a few
1) LOST TREASURES (you used to do this, but resurrect it.Talk about cool, but long forgotten films or shows)
2)SCRIPT CONTEST? (I know this all sounds silly because this site has gotten fucking lazy..)...but allow us to submit scripts? and the winner gets there script shown to an agent or someone in hollywood.
3)Fuck it, if you don't care for the suggestions, but please don't ever talk bout the C.W. again.unless its Smallville. -
my condolences
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I miss that man.
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I'd love to see Subzero slicing and dicing these scumbags at the Rockefeller Rink. You can even have a Today Show tie in with blood spattering on the window behind the news desk while Al does the weather.
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Besides vloggers and TV show hosts whose whole schtick is to make fun of it?
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Mar 10, 2010 2:07:42 PM CST
I'd rather watch CW's show of the magazine "HIGH SOCIETY"!
by mrmysteryguest
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you might have something to discuss.
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the series does seem to depict substance abusers.
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...why is a reality show being covered on a site about shows that are cool? I'll never understand why Herc covers this crap, while completely ignoring shows that genre fans actually like, and that would be far more appropriate to this website.
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...why hasn't Harry done anything about it? It's obvious, from the TONS of comments on the subject, that most people don't like the shows Herc covers. So why doesn't Harry care about the quality of his site?
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Almost makes me want to tune in. Almost, but not quite. The problem with reality shows, as opposed to scripted fictional shows, is there are no writers to kill off the people you would like to see killed off.
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If I want to gawk at substance abusers,I will watch Intervention or troll the web for sad tales.Now,let me get back to my weed.
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something I will never want to watch? In fact, it appears to be another must to avoid, like Gossip Crap and similar. At least they have Smallville and Supernatural, plus I admit, Vampire Diaries actually went beyond it's Twilight junk to become more Dark Shadows-like. Wife was watching it while I did other stuff in house, and caught a few minutes one night and muttered, "this doesn't look idiotic anymore."
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...bet your comment/reference whizzed by many here. Yeah, Cerebus is definitely cable, if it happened at all.
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There are not enough bad things that can happen to those who star in shows like this or keep them on the air by watching them.
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