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Boasting no big-name stars, Series 7 is surprisingly well-acted. Its timing is impeccable, with its dark humor casting shadows over the enjoyment and popularity of today's reality-TV shows.
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Minahan learned the vocabulary of the new "reality" TV so...
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“Series 7: The Contenders” is a satire on reality TV, taking the world of “Survivor” and “Temptation Island” to its logical extension with a TV show where the contestants kill one another.
What would be the point of a satire, which failed to draw us in i.e. one in which we had no interest? There would be none, we may as well watch an essay.
SERIES 7 is a timely satire of tacky tabloid television shows like HARD COPY and new reality shows like SURVIVOR and TEMPTATION ISLAND. The movie is a TV show-within-a-movie. It plays like a marathon of episodes from the seventh season of a phony reality television show called THE CONTENDERS.
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The 2001 film Series 7: The Contenders, written and directed by Daniel Minahan, is a dark and violent satire of American Reality Shows. The Contenders offers a unique form of entertainment for its loyal viewers: the show's contestants must kill each other until only one "Contender" remains standing.
Minahan learned the vocabulary of the new "reality" TV so well that Series 7 is a pitch-perfect satire of the genre: It takes the form of a TV show that selects contestants at random,...
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As entertainment SERIES 7 is seductive and exciting. As satire it is sharp and black as pitch.
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