Oh boy, the show hasn't even aired yet and the reviews of Bravo's Miami Social just keep getting worse. Well, the LA Times didn't loathe it like the NY Times and Miami Herald did, but it's LA and bad TV there is like a 3 p.m. rainstorm in the summer here. And with that, today's round up of the critic's take on the show that may actually be more responsible for the demise of Miami's popularity than the economy.
Ariel thinks of himself as a person of considerable importance: he produces fashion shows in Miami-Dade County. But as long as Miami isn’t New York or Paris or Milan, saying you are the biggest fashion producer there is like saying you are the biggest auto maker in Tuscaloosa . . .
A stupefying concoction of idiotic hubris, faux glamour and neurotic self-absorption, Miami Social purports to follow ''a close circle of seven friends who make this city spin,'' including such civic heavyweights as a freelance editor, a freelance photographer, a South Beach party-planner and a real-estate agent who doesn't know how to figure square-footage costs. (At last! An explanation for the collapse of the South Florida housing market!) . . .
I'd sooner eat lunch with a mutilated corpse from CSI: Miami or Dexter than be trapped at a table with the Miami Social cast.
Instead there will be a lot of shopping, drinking, parties and talk-talk-talking, and the conversations will rarely stray from the self-absorbed rut worn smooth by the semi-scripted alliances of docudrama friendship. Oh, the wearisome fabulousness of it all.
NY Daily News: Big Brother and The Apprentice retreads aren't nearly as interesting on Bravo's Miami Social.
You'd think we'd be getting tired of TV shows about people whose only apparent on-camera skill is behaving like dopes. But Bravo apparently doesn't feel we've hit that tipping point yet. And Bravo may be right. In which case, to be blunt, all the dopes aren't on the other side of the camera . . .
And so it goes. And like so many "reality" shows that have little to sell beyond neuroses and obnoxious, self-centered behavior, "Miami Social" in the end feels tedious and a little sad.
The pink-and-teal pastels of Miami have rarely felt so dull.
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