So goes the slogan for
Impossible Heists, premiering tonight on Court TV.
"It's like
Ocean's 11 meets
Survivor!" brags their
web site. "Two teams...are challenged to execute a complex and physically demanding heist while trying to elude the highest-tech security..." And by an
incredible stroke of good fortune,
all of the contestants (or should they be called perps?) are total hotties!
(One minority? Check. One Spanish-sounding name? Check. Co-ed? Check. Any homosexuals? Hopefully.)
Since when is grand theft something to be admired and encouraged? Should this be considered "reality" TV, let alone "entertainment?" And should it be on Court TV, who are supposed to be on the side of law and order? I enjoy their real-crime shows (except the psychic ones), but maybe that's because you don't have to wonder who the good guys are.
Maybe this wouldn't bother me so much if it weren't so soon after the Nichols rampage. And the church massacre. And the four-year-old putting a gun to his younger brother's head. And the gun that went off in a 7-year-old's bookbag during class. And the guy who axe-murdered an acquaintence on a publicly traveled street in broad daylight (I guess HE couldn't get his hands on a gun). And the Texan who may have finished a bar fight by firing through the sunroof of a Jaguar...How did lawlessness become so--so POP?
:shrug:
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