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1) Iggy Pop is fantastic, but one episode has made me sick to death of "The Passenger."
2) What in the world is "liferollson," and why is it on seemingly any piece of clothing they wear? What kind of contrived product placement is that?
3) Anything seem incorrect or fabricated to you? I, for one, am skeptical of the quasi-pastry fight Alex started with Morgan.
4) Also related to #3, I'm curious if they staged the hospital visits in order to show just how easily the threshold between "getting by" and "being
ed" is crossed. Staged or not, since people tend to visit hospitals, I'm not sure how this is not an accurate protrayal.
5) The use of They Might Be Giants ("Minimum Wage") was a nice touch.
6) Regardless of people's perceptions of Morgan "Supersize Me" Spurlock, he really did a decent job, in my opinion, of treating day labor as a fact of life, rather than blasting it for the obvious exploitation that it is.
7) I wonder if Alex's vegandom had any effect on the kind of diet they ate, and how accurately it reflects purchasing patterns of people on minimum wage.
8) Since I live in Cincinnati, this show was a little too close to home for me; regardless, poor areas of town are so segregated from the rest (thanks to the history of discrimination, realtor redlining, and other unfair - and fair - practices), that it's very easy for people who aren't just getting by to ignore that this really does exist.
9) I think Alex is the only coffee shop dishwasher I've ever met who didn't have purple dreadlocks, a pair of stretchjeans held together with patches of 500 crust bands, and a nasty heroin habit. Just a thought.
10) I'm dumbfounded by two things: the parental advisory (written and spoken) at the beginning of the show; Morgan calls a $700+ emergency room bill "bullshit." Also, that a show such as this is on a Rupert Murdoch station - fascinating, to say the least. This man, he loves his money.
myke.
...I enjoyed the hell out of the show.
1) Iggy Pop is fantastic, but one episode has made me sick to death of "The Passenger."
2) What in the world is "liferollson," and why is it on seemingly any piece of clothing they wear? What kind of contrived product placement is that?
3) Anything seem incorrect or fabricated to you? I, for one, am skeptical of the quasi-pastry fight Alex started with Morgan.
4) Also related to #3, I'm curious if they staged the hospital visits in order to show just how easily the threshold between "getting by" and "being
ed" is crossed. Staged or not, since people tend to visit hospitals, I'm not sure how this is not an accurate protrayal.5) The use of They Might Be Giants ("Minimum Wage") was a nice touch.
6) Regardless of people's perceptions of Morgan "Supersize Me" Spurlock, he really did a decent job, in my opinion, of treating day labor as a fact of life, rather than blasting it for the obvious exploitation that it is.
7) I wonder if Alex's vegandom had any effect on the kind of diet they ate, and how accurately it reflects purchasing patterns of people on minimum wage.
8) Since I live in Cincinnati, this show was a little too close to home for me; regardless, poor areas of town are so segregated from the rest (thanks to the history of discrimination, realtor redlining, and other unfair - and fair - practices), that it's very easy for people who aren't just getting by to ignore that this really does exist.
9) I think Alex is the only coffee shop dishwasher I've ever met who didn't have purple dreadlocks, a pair of stretchjeans held together with patches of 500 crust bands, and a nasty heroin habit. Just a thought.
10) I'm dumbfounded by two things: the parental advisory (written and spoken) at the beginning of the show; Morgan calls a $700+ emergency room bill "bullshit." Also, that a show such as this is on a Rupert Murdoch station - fascinating, to say the least. This man, he loves his money.
myke.
...I enjoyed the hell out of the show.
