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...Model.” For those unfamiliar with the phenomenon that is ANTM, the show is supermodel Tyra Banks’s sometimes-sadistic “modeling” competition (it’s judged more on personality than pictures), which professes to seek the next great model??a young girl who invariably disappears after winning...
...mother, after observing me waste away hours every day watching cycles—“Top Model?? has cycles, not seasons (and with a dozen girls trapped in a house together for months, the menstruation jokes write themselves)—asked me how I could possibly find entertainment in reality TV I’d already seen...
...Past “Top Model?? cycles, I said, are like good mystery novels: After you know who did it, you have to read it again. Watching Cycle Four from the beginning for the umpteenth time, I could look for clues to reveal how Naima went from being the quiet, faux-hawked dancer no one seemed to notice to Top Model. (Incidentally, she recently had to quit a waitressing job because she got recognized too often while pouring her customers’ coffee...
...benefits of shows like “Top Model?? and “American Idol” (and lots of others, from Survivor to Project Runway) offer more than just the flexing of our cognitive muscles. They teach us lessons about which kind of narratives are successful—and which aren’t. Successful narratives include the under-the-radar talent (like the girls described above), the obnoxious enfant terrible who eventually softens (Eva on “Top Model?? Cycle Three, Christian on this season’s “Project Runway?...
...wont to lament or lambaste their government and culture in a manner unthinkable to the elites of other developed countries. In Japan, it took a decade of recession and stagnation for the nation’s leaders to accept a transition away from the “Japanese model?? of corporatism and state subsidies. The mere suggestion of changes in the famously cozy French employment laws sparked massive protests by literally millions of students. And in Germany, even the election of reformist opposition leader Angela Merkel failed to change much as the parliamentary elite forced a coalition...