Utopia. Anybody watching it? It debuted tonight on Fox. Lots of strong personalities, including at least two strong atheists (and a pastor).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utopia_(U....TV_series)

Quote:The series follows a cast of 15 men and women who are placed in isolation and filmed twenty-four hours a day for one year. The cast must create their own society and figure out how to survive. The series will be shown twice a week, but there will be online streaming 24/7 with 129 hidden and unhidden cameras all over the Utopia compound.

I imagine once they start showing that a socialist/free market system is best it will be cut.

Bleh, another survivor-hell's kitchen-bachelor-big brother "reality" show. They'll stick the atheists with the pastor, the bros with the feminists, the vegan hippy with the war vet, and just sit there and rake in the money while people watch the "real and meaningful" fights.

(September 8, 2014 at 1:15 am)c172 Wrote: Utopia. Anybody watching it? It debuted tonight on Fox. Lots of strong personalities, including at least two strong atheists (and a pastor).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utopia_(U....TV_series)

Quote:The series follows a cast of 15 men and women who are placed in isolation and filmed twenty-four hours a day for one year. The cast must create their own society and figure out how to survive. The series will be shown twice a week, but there will be online streaming 24/7 with 129 hidden and unhidden cameras all over the Utopia compound.

Love these kind of shows. I don't remember what it was called but I liked that one that placed groups of people in post-apocalyptic scenarios (one compound was in an abandoned post-Katrina neighborhood) and gave them a few days food and then let them figure out how to survive.

I'd be interested in being on one of these shows someday.

I'm in the UK for a few more months but I'll probably watch it when I'm back in the states.

(September 8, 2014 at 8:53 am)Keri Wrote: I'm in the UK for a few more months but I'll probably watch it when I'm back in the states.

DPB waves to Keri from the south coast of the UK.

(September 8, 2014 at 8:35 am)FatAndFaithless Wrote: Bleh, another survivor-hell's kitchen-bachelor-big brother "reality" show. They'll stick the atheists with the pastor, the bros with the feminists, the vegan hippy with the war vet, and just sit there and rake in the money while people watch the "real and meaningful" fights.

Don't you DARE insult Hell's Kitchen, or any Gordon Ramsay show! He's the freaking man!



Even though they do get repetitive sometimes...

Oh, man, I can't wait to review that stinker of a show though. The very idea of utopia itself is flawed, let alone the execution.

(September 8, 2014 at 1:50 pm)StealthySkeptic Wrote:

(September 8, 2014 at 8:35 am)FatAndFaithless Wrote: Bleh, another survivor-hell's kitchen-bachelor-big brother "reality" show. They'll stick the atheists with the pastor, the bros with the feminists, the vegan hippy with the war vet, and just sit there and rake in the money while people watch the "real and meaningful" fights.

Don't you DARE insult Hell's Kitchen, or any Gordon Ramsay show! He's the freaking man!



Even though they do get repetitive sometimes...

Oh, man, I can't wait to review that stinker of a show though. The very idea of utopia itself is flawed, let alone the execution.

Oh I love the Ramsay, he's one of my favorite TV personalities. I just hate the manufactured drama that goes on in Hell's Kitchen.

Ramsey himself goes overboard in that show, but I do like the things they make the chefs do. I also like Chopped.

Reality TV is so unpopular now, but for whatever reason, I like some of it.

(September 8, 2014 at 2:07 pm)c172 Wrote: Ramsey himself goes overboard in that show, but I do like the things they make the chefs do. I also like Chopped.

Reality TV is so unpopular now, but for whatever reason, I like some of it.

I think that everybody says he's a grouch, but he only yells at people who are complete idiots. He's really just a giant teddy bear if you watch MasterChef Junior, or some of the more tender episodes of Kitchen Nightmares or Hotel Hell.

(September 8, 2014 at 2:15 pm)StealthySkeptic Wrote:

(September 8, 2014 at 2:07 pm)c172 Wrote: Ramsey himself goes overboard in that show, but I do like the things they make the chefs do. I also like Chopped.

Reality TV is so unpopular now, but for whatever reason, I like some of it.

I think that everybody says he's a grouch, but he only yells at people who are complete idiots. He's really just a giant teddy bear if you watch MasterChef Junior, or some of the more tender episodes of Kitchen Nightmares or Hotel Hell.

I really like on Ktichen Nightmares how he's so super nice to the wait staff and younger folks because he knows it's not their fault, and then he goes balistic on lazy owners and shitty managers.