V.F. critic rilaws calls the MTV revival 'downright bad'
, and longtime tabloid target. She looks happy and healthy, and has a centered intelligence foreign to many of the other characters on the show. I don’t fully know whether I believe that Barton and this gang were good friends back in the day the way they keep suggesting, but whatever. For the peculiar project of this show—raising sad zombies to twirl before us as distraction from encroaching middle-age—Barton’s casting makes sense.
In the second episode, we’re presented with an exciting possibility: Barton facing off with her old antagonizersequel that promises to be! A mighty, meta reckoning with the celebrity culture that bore and swallowed up all these people—and has now spit them back out at us. Only when the big, teased moment finally arrives,isn’t able to offer anyone much catharsis. Hilton storms off, Barton seems unsatisfied, and the episode glides away.
The show’s art is gone, too. The camera work tries to ape the sparkle of old, but there’s something too bright and HD about it. It’s not just time that has ravaged these people; it’s the lighting. And they have the cast do reality show-standard talking-head interviews, something the originalNew Beginnings, a show that owes a lot toisn’t something tragic, a broken dream, or anything. It’s just dumb and not entertaining. I don’t hate any of the people on it; I just wanted better for them.
I just wish this comfortably fallow earth had been tilled more thoughtfully, that there was more reverence for the thing that was, more sensitivity to the current need for gentler things. Imagine a newthat was genuinely pensive, that spent its episodes sighing and remembering and huffing along through mellow intrigue.
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