Posts Tagged ‘Culture’

How to Win Friends and Influence Bachelorettes

// June 14th, 2010 // 1 Comment » // Culture, Faith, TV

The Truman ShowRemember The Truman Show? The Jim Carrey movie from 1998? In it, Jim Carrey’s character, Truman Burbank, is an insurance adjuster who discovers that his entire life is one big fiction, a television show that has documented his life, 24 hours a day, from the moment he was born.

I remember when this movie came out, watching it in the theater, thinking, ”This movie’s on to something. This movie’s not just a fun fiction to watch. This is saying something.” I’ll bet if I were to watch it today, I’d realize how prescient the movie was. Granted, MTV’s The Real World had been on the air for 6 years already, an incredible trailblazer in the genre now known as reality TV.  But Survivor was still 2 years away from crowning Richard Hatch as the first winner. (more…)

Why LOST Matters

// May 23rd, 2010 // 3 Comments » // Culture, TV

So maybe to a lot of people, Lost doesn’t matter. And I get that. Sadly, it’s the kind of show that if you miss out early on, there’s that sense that it’s going to take a major commitment to get caught up now. Fans of Lost are real Fans of Lost. There aren’t a lot of fence-sitters here. Lost fans don’t miss an episode. And those who aren’t fans must feel very much excluded. They’ve never been to Lost world. They’re outsiders. They’re disconnected from conversations and, today, a great deal of cultural hubbub. (more…)