TV tonight: My Generation - TIME (blog)

It is very possible to make a good TV show a bad television program.30 Rock, for example, TGS manages to stay on the air every year, but we see him: "ZiS machine has too many farts it! will exploit!"-does not suggest a classic.
My Generation, will premiere on ABC tonight, is about a bad documentary. A film crew followed by a group of high school students in Austin, Tx. graduated in 2000 and is returning to update us on them ten years later.(Actually, I do not think that the pilot makes it clear if the documentary was for a movie or TV, but the format of serial and narrative style suggests TV, to the an MTV News doc) .in the show-in-a-show, various characters get reductive realidad-TV (the Nerd, the punk, The Wallflower) identifiers and the Decade Gets a newsmagazine Wittgenstein summary: "It was an era of prosperity..." "The country was divided in two, says red and blue States..."
The intriguing challenge of My Generation, showing how the real life has complicated this neat package, you can get a good show of this show wrong.It is not yet there, but in giving it a try, at least one of the few series broadcast new interesting is this season.
The thesis of the show is that the ' 00s were so disappointing for his characters twentysomething as for the rest of us. The crew documentary which follows them packages in radical terms, holders, generational - 2000 was so promising, then Enron, 9/11 and Katrina struck and everything has changed, all to a soundtrack of pop music.(Warning to those prone to premature midlife crisis: "The Real Slim Shady" is now nostalgic music.) But little by little we see that their lives have been shorts in the timeless, little, ways to make fixed news not living real. With distracted, complacent, disillusioned, diversion. (And in one case, as you might suspect, pregnant women).
The drill, so popular comedies, doc format may seem pretentious in a drama.But here is really refreshing and entertainment voice often distintiva.A we learned most of the characters, how to respond to questions not by how may not respond.One of the scenes that affect the pilot is sad and comical.The rich school kid and his wife trophy took the camera showing outside have learned in a wine tasting class ("Yes! BlackBerry!"), then - in response to a question about her acting ambitions - alludes to his season as a participant in the second season of The Bachelor, and rolls of a clip.Visibly uncomfortable, but decidedly smiling, she changes the theme: "I'm so excited to see how salami from going to go with the wine"!
My generation has taken a hammering in other tests of principles and do not see why; is difficult to separate the documentary (which is quite realistic in your glibness) the framing of the same show.(Since the documentary is what we are seeing, whereas frame more goal type.)Created entirely on a more nuanced drama reading between the lines, on our sense of ironic difference between neat packing of TV and the deal of disappointing life, can be too much for show handling and can be too much to ask of hearings.
But after one episode, I am intrigado.Mi generation may end as evil as the mockumentary that contains, but would rather see try and fail in his ambition messy see the competence of a dozen other new shows this autumn.

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