I am – Hercules!!
For those who don’t get enough of her on Fox News, TLC has mounted a new reality show focused on the woman many consider the best hope for pushing Barack Obama -- and his Obamacare and his death panels and his corporate bailouts and his costly wars in the Middle East -- out of the White House for good.
TLC reportedly pays $1,000,000 per episode to air the series. Palin couldn’t have taken this job had she not midway through her first term quit her position as governor of Alaska, which paid her $125,000 per year.
The New York Times says:
… wholesome, visually breathtaking and a little dull. …
The Los Angeles Times says:
… A show that is, in a phrase, breathtaking, though not so much in form as function. Certainly the Palins are a great-looking family and Alaska is a great-looking state, but it's not the image of a bear raising itself to full angry height or the grandeur of Mt. McKinley or Willow Palin's boyfriend sneaking up to her bedroom that causes the viewer's jaw to, and not occasionally, drop. It's the fabulous shamelessness, the awful and yet admirable brilliance of the thing. Whether Palin will ever run for office or not, "Sarah Palin's Alaska" sets a new standard for political ads. …
The Washington Post says:
… Isn't this the kind of person whom forest rangers usually despise? The one whose loud command to heed the bears actually startles the bears? The hapless camper whom taxpayers have to rescue at great expense after she loses her Verizon signal and gets hopelessly disoriented? … It's still pretty blah and rarely rises above a relative's chatty slide show of vacation pictures. …
The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette says:
… If not for the polarizing nature of its star -- people who love her and hate her will tune in to revel in her Palin-ness or mock her for it -- no one would be talking about this dull, derivative TV show. …
The Boston Herald says:
… turns out to be a tepid travelogue …
The Hollywood Reporter says:
… What’s most unfortunate about Alaska is that what could have been a very good travel and nature series gets co-opted by politics and the faux believability of a reality show. … Alaska shouldn’t worry or rile the people who don’t like her. It should worry her Republican opponents should she ever seek, say, a higher office.
Variety says:
… Palin isn't lyin' when she suggests that the writer next door is "gonna be bored to death," as will much of the audience. …
9 p.m. Sunday. TLC.
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