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Smartest And Most Appalling TV Show Lists Have Surprisingly Few Crossovers
4:42AM Seth | MENSA International, the V.I.I.Q. club who claims amongst its brainy members such luminaries as Steve Martin, Geena Davis, Jodie Foster, Sharon Stone and Jimmy “180″ Woods, has issued a list of what they deem to be the Top Ten Smartest TV Shows of all Time. It’s a highly subjective topic sure to provoke debate, as much as for who made MENSA chair Jim Werdell’s list (CSI, Boston Legal, Mad About You) as for who didn’t (The Sopranos, Quantum Leap, Passions). The full list after the jump: More »
A ‘Kid Nation’ Reunion: What If The Theoretical Survivors Of Bonanza City Threw A Party?
7:35AM Defamer Hollywood | On last week’s season finale of Kid Nation, America mourned as CBS Bonanza City, the experimental, would-be utopia intended to serve as a model for reforming our utterly debased society, succumbed to anarchy, unspeakable violence, and the first televised act of child-on-child cannibalism in the history of the medium. More »The ‘Kid Nation’ Ends In Ruin
5:25AM Defamer Hollywood | It is with a heavy heart that we note Kid Nation, the bold experiment in utopia-building bravely undertaken by the finest societal engineers the world of network television has ever seen, ended in tragedy, heartache and utter failure. On last night’s season finale, host Jonathan Karsh–whom, we feel obligated to point out, we always believed to be a minion of Satan himself sent to tempt the children with community-eroding worldly pleasures – cackled as the town’s Job Board, the monument codifying the ever-shifting caste system that kept CBS Bonanza City from descending into total chaos, was consumed in flames, declaring–please brace yourselves – that there would be no more laws. More »The ‘Kid Nation’ Finally Starts Addressing Its Taylor Problem
6:55AM Defamer Hollywood | Having survived last week’s bloody putsch that stripped her of a position on the Town Council but left five of her most loyal Yellow District adherents dead, deposed Kid Nation pageantator Taylor struggled to make the difficult adjustment to her lowered status within the CBS Bonanza City community during Wednesday night’s new episode. More »Revolution Comes To ‘Kid Nation’
7:00AM Defamer Hollywood | Perhaps realising that airing the footage of Kid Nation’s controversial field-trip reward we previewed yesterday might again open up the show to the child-endangerment accusations it has largely left behind since its premiere, the network ultimately decided to edit all Michael Jackson-related moments from last night’s episode, even though the “unexpected loss of innocence at the bleached hands of a ghoulish former pop-star” clause in the production’s exhaustive waiver technically indemnified them from any legal claims stemming from the children’s Neverland Ranch sleepover. More »The ‘Kid Nation’ Faces Its Most Difficult Challenge To Date
6:30AM Defamer Hollywood | In a sneak preview of tonight’s installment of Kid Nation just leaked online, we learn that the citizens of CBS Bonanza City will finally abandon the preternatural maturity that has previously allowed them to choose sensible waste-elimination facilities over a television and soul-nurturing Bibles over a productivity-diminishing mini-golf course, opting for a communal reward too irresistible to pass up in favour of a more practical prize. More »
‘Kid Nation’ Pageant Queens Don’t Do Dishes
6:00AM Defamer Hollywood | Perhaps you’ve heard some mutterings that the producers of Kid Nation exploited their underage cast and violated child labour laws. Pshaw! At least one of those kids arrived to the show pre-exploited. More »Citizens Of ‘Kid Nation’ Choose God Over Dinosaur Holes
5:35AM Defamer Hollywood | While we’ve already paid one visit today to Kid Nation – by way of some exclusive Junior Miss cheesecake glamour shots of Taylor, or “Queen of the Yellow Hankies” as she insists her disciples refer to her – we thought we’d return once again to the outhouse-deficient Shangri-La, this time with clip in tow. In last night’s stunning turn of events, the citizens of Bonanza City were again offered a choice as steeped in moral implication as the TVs vs. Poop-Shacks vote of the debut episode. More »Addiction Threatens To Cripple ‘Kid Nation’
3:08AM Defamer Hollywood | While we never expected Kid Nation’s pioneers to succumb to the siren song of virgin sasparilla this quickly, it was inevitable that residents of CBS Bonanza City would eventually turn to drink to blunt the pain of their workaday lives; after all, there are only so many filthy, overflowing outhouses a ten-year-old can scrub before she needs a little help forgetting she’s trapped in the Labourer class for at least another week. More »
