"The problem, however, is endemic to the entire genre, which is built on smug overacting, and which celebrates as a virtue the practice of caustically putting down rivals and sarcastically mocking friends. In each of these programs, everyone is endlessly ridiculing everyone else in order to showcase their own playful impudence, thereby equating coolness with smart-assery. Such verbal bluster is matched by hip-shaking, shoulder-shrugging physical posturing and exaggerated facial expressions that are equally repellent, so that an episode of, say, Jesse -- which is populated by a multicultural cast of Red Bull–hyper tykes -- is a crash course in precocious rudeness, and a veritable competition of put-down one-upsmanship." Nailed it.
Posted on: Mon, 24 Jun 2013 04:17:26 +0000
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