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shadowkatFinished watching the PBS series Broadway or Bust and it was disappointing.
They spent far too much time with repetitive and smulchy voice-overs and interviews. Not enough on the musical numbers. Too much of the judges telling us what they were looking for or what they liked, which is fine, but you do not to repeat it every five minutes. We get it!
Throughout the series we follow these two female performers, Brittany and the blond, and watch them compete, one (the blond) disappears completely from the competition, and the other one (Brittany who reminds me of a young Jennifer Hudson meets Fantasia) is not selected because they don't believe her voice is strong enough to pull off the song she chose and has knocked out of the park at least once in auditions - this is AFTER they've done nothing but rave about her throughout. Apparently because they've pushed her voice so hard during rehearsals, she can't perform it now, so is not a finalist?? (WTF?)
The guy who wins (Joshua, who spent the entire three episodes repeating how he doesn't belong, was selected as a runner up and is clearly out of his depth)...was the most boring. And clearly won because he could sing in Italian.
The girl who wins while quite good had no competition (her competition was the two people they did NOT select - Brittany and the blond, the other two we never saw and the judges blasted as being fairly weak in the medley), the judges already told us the other two weren't blowing them away and we never saw them in the other two episodes. No interviews, nothing.
If you are going to do the interview thing - at least do interviews for the finalists.
Disappointing. This could have been an amazing show-case of young talent and Broadway tunes. Instead it seems to be a self-congratulation fest of patting the organizers and judges on the backs for how hard they worked and what a great thing this whole idea is. By the end of it, I wanted to kick the judges and the choreographer, and the film-makers for their constant self-congratulations and narcissism.
Note to whomever produced and filmed this documentary? Next time show us the performances for each kid. Less interviews. Less voice-overs. And hire a good editor!
In other news...it appears Breaking Bad got shut-out of the Actor and Actress Emmy's? Homeland won instead? Oh well at least Louis CK won. (Apparently 3 Emmy's.) And Jessica Lange got it for American Horror Story, not surprising. She's in S2.
They spent far too much time with repetitive and smulchy voice-overs and interviews. Not enough on the musical numbers. Too much of the judges telling us what they were looking for or what they liked, which is fine, but you do not to repeat it every five minutes. We get it!
Throughout the series we follow these two female performers, Brittany and the blond, and watch them compete, one (the blond) disappears completely from the competition, and the other one (Brittany who reminds me of a young Jennifer Hudson meets Fantasia) is not selected because they don't believe her voice is strong enough to pull off the song she chose and has knocked out of the park at least once in auditions - this is AFTER they've done nothing but rave about her throughout. Apparently because they've pushed her voice so hard during rehearsals, she can't perform it now, so is not a finalist?? (WTF?)
The guy who wins (Joshua, who spent the entire three episodes repeating how he doesn't belong, was selected as a runner up and is clearly out of his depth)...was the most boring. And clearly won because he could sing in Italian.
The girl who wins while quite good had no competition (her competition was the two people they did NOT select - Brittany and the blond, the other two we never saw and the judges blasted as being fairly weak in the medley), the judges already told us the other two weren't blowing them away and we never saw them in the other two episodes. No interviews, nothing.
If you are going to do the interview thing - at least do interviews for the finalists.
Disappointing. This could have been an amazing show-case of young talent and Broadway tunes. Instead it seems to be a self-congratulation fest of patting the organizers and judges on the backs for how hard they worked and what a great thing this whole idea is. By the end of it, I wanted to kick the judges and the choreographer, and the film-makers for their constant self-congratulations and narcissism.
Note to whomever produced and filmed this documentary? Next time show us the performances for each kid. Less interviews. Less voice-overs. And hire a good editor!
In other news...it appears Breaking Bad got shut-out of the Actor and Actress Emmy's? Homeland won instead? Oh well at least Louis CK won. (Apparently 3 Emmy's.) And Jessica Lange got it for American Horror Story, not surprising. She's in S2.
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Date: 2012-09-24 02:42 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2012-09-25 01:34 am (UTC)Also they tend to go with PC or theme related material. And there's a lot of politics and favoritism.
The Academy Awards are hard to take seriously for much the same reasons, although at least everyone voting for those have to watch all the films involved. Not true about the Emmy's, because there's too many tv series, its impossible.
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Date: 2012-09-24 07:51 am (UTC)I wanted to kick the judges and the choreographer, and the film-makers for their constant self-congratulations and narcissism. Note to whomever produced and filmed this documentary? Next time show us the performances for each kid. Less interviews. Less voice-overs. And hire a good editor!
Definitely!
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Date: 2012-09-25 01:35 am (UTC)