And it just keeps getting worse. The critics are to Miami Social what the Slap Chop is to an onion, although again, another LA-based publication, The Hollywood Reporter, kinda liked it. Emphasis on kinda.
Boston Herald: Miami leech party: shallow subjects sink Bravo's new reality show.
Social’ misfits: Bravo’s latest batch of reality stars — Katrina, Ariel, Maria, Hardy, Michael, Sorah and George, — aren’t relatable or interesting in the cable channel’s new series.
The two gay men in the mix could set the gay rights movement back 20 years.
Katrina’s marriage disintegrates in the opener. That might mean something if Katrina didn’t act like a cyborg.
Bravo’s newest unscripted series “Miami Social” (tonight at 10) spotlights a group of seven shallow young professionals considered to be that city’s party elite. The show, however, is pure tourist repellent.
The various “Housewives” shows work because everyone has or knows somebody like at least one cast member in their own lives. But few have friends like these and even fewer would admit it. Beyond the relatability factor, there’s another problem: These people are boring.
Stuck watching the screener, I kept hoping someone would come by and pick a fight with me - anything to break up the tedium.
You can practically hear Miami officials begging Bravo to pull this junk. You wouldn’t want to be within six city blocks of these posers.
Hollywood Reporter: Real humans would drown in water this shallow.
Despite your best efforts to look away, you won't be able to. Everything about "Social" is so superficially dumb you'll hate yourself for caring about whether George's relationship with his quick-tempered girlfriend will last, or how Maria will cope after her daughter goes to boarding school.
Hartford Courant: Miami Sociopaths.
Where does Bravo find the people it celebrates in its reality shows? It's tempting to imagine that they concoct them in a laboratory somewhere. There can't be this many off-putting, self-absorbed heels in America, can there? Another ugly group is found in Florida for the series "Miami Social" There is a small chance some watch these shows to laugh at how arrogant, small-minded and egotistical people can be. But I'm worried that enough people will think these self-styled movers and shakers will think they're so cool, they may spawn another generation. Ick.
but katrina is a cyborg. she can only drum up business from NFL players who scored less than a 10 on the wonderlic
Posted by: anon | July 14, 2009 at 06:38 PM