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Awix (3310 KP) rated Network (1976) in Movies

Feb 16, 2018 (Updated Feb 16, 2018)  
Network (1976)
Network (1976)
1976 | Comedy, Drama
8
8.2 (10 Ratings)
Movie Rating Watch
Acclaimed satirical comedy-drama; impressively prescient look at American media. Long-serving newscaster is victim of falling ratings, has breakdown and threatens to commit suicide on live TV: network execs are appalled until it transpires this has caused a spike in viewing figures, so they give him a job as a ranting news gimp.

Smartly written and well-performed; slight tendency towards speechifying rather than actual dialogue in the closing stages, but at least the speeches are good. Movie predicts rise of reality TV and collapse in news values with eerie accuracy, also the potential power of rabble-rousing TV demagogues (chief rabble-rouser does not complain about fake news, but it's a near thing). On another level, film is basically just cinema being snotty about how television is a more juvenile and morally bankrupt medium - 1976 was one of the very last years they could do this without it seeming like massive hypocrisy.
  
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Erika Kehlet (21 KP) rated 15 Minutes (A Maizie Albright Star Detective Mystery, #1) in Books

Feb 21, 2018  
15 Minutes (A Maizie Albright Star Detective Mystery, #1)
15 Minutes (A Maizie Albright Star Detective Mystery, #1)
Larissa Reinhart | 2017 | Crime, Fiction & Poetry, Mystery
8
8.0 (1 Ratings)
Book Rating
Celebrity gossip fans, reality TV fans, and of course mystery fans are going to love Maizie Albright. She is determined, quirky, and lots of fun. A former child actor who played a detective on TV, Maisie returns home to Black Pine, Georgia seeking an apprenticeship with a real private investigator. Will Maisie be able to convince her unwilling mentor that she’s more than a hollywood has-been? Full of humor and romance, this is a great start to a new series.

Read more on <a href="https://booksthething.com/2017/01/26/15-minutes-by-larissa-reinhart-blog-tour-giveaway/">The Book's the Thing</a>

<i>I was provided with a free copy from Netgalley in exchange for my honest review.</i>
  
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Laura Doe (1350 KP) rated The Shelf in Books

May 12, 2022  
The Shelf
The Shelf
Helly Acton | 2020 | Fiction & Poetry
8
8.0 (1 Ratings)
Book Rating
Who would have thought that a book about being on a reality TV show after being dumped on TV would be such an interesting book topic?
I love that Helly Acton dreamt up an entire Tv show around a devastating moment in life and turned it around to something positive. Having seven women in a house at a low point in their lives could have gone completely horribly, but the characters that Helly wrote gelled together so well that there wasn’t a lot of drama but you still rooted for each and every woman in The Shelf house.
I loved how she integrated social media and technology into the house with The Wall and The Tracker, and used them to show how they would be interacted with if they were included in a real reality TV show.
I didn’t want to put this book down, and didn’t know who I wanted to be evicted each time there was an eviction as I loved each one of the characters. I also liked how at the end of the book, everyone’s happiness wasn’t measured by whether they were in a relationship or not, it was whether they had met their goals. And I also love that the theme throughout this book wasn’t that you need to be in a relationship to be happy, but that you need to love yourself first to be happy and don’t rush into being with someone who ultimately isn’t right for you just because you think that you’re running out of time.
I can’t wait to read Helly’s next book now.