In the increasingly unrealistic world of reality television, it turns out that Southern-fried 20-somethings can be just as self-absorbed, petty and gorgeous as their West Coast brethren.
Meet the folks of "Nashville," Fox's newest entry into the "just-barely-a-reality-show" genre, about a handful of aspiring country music singers trying to make it big in the honky-tonkin' Tennessee capital.
"Nashville," the first new network show to debut in the 2007-08 television season, comes from the same team behind "Laguna Beach: The Real Orange County," MTV's stylized reality show about rich kids living the spoiled life in Cali.
"Laguna Beach," and later "The Hills" and "Newport Harbor," also on MTV, stretched the boundaries of reality TV, turning the once rough-and-tumble format with bad cinematography (remember the early years of "The Real World" and "Survivor"?) into buffed and polished mini-movies, featuring perfectly sculpted characters spewing lines that sound scripted.
We'll give this to "Nashville" -- not all its subjects are superficial snobs, and some of them do have real talent. But with the music comes plenty of soapy mini-drama about their social lives.
Source: www.washingtonpost.com
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