 Celebrities Uncensored (E!) Celebrities Uncensored is a bottom-feeding variant of Entertainment Tonight, operating more as an Entertainment During the Boring Middle of the Day or Entertainment Late at Night Right Before Bed. It utilizes paparazzi footage of celebrities engaged in mostly mundane activities, occasionally provoking a response from the celebrities through the sheer relentlessness of its gawking. Aside from the occasional celebrity tantrum caught on tape or, like, Paris Hilton embarrassing herself, what you mostly get is celebrities reacting to paparazzi presence, with the reaction ranging from politely tolerant to vaguely belligerent depending on the caliber of the star involved. Up-and-coming or on-the-way-down celebrities tend to engage the camera more, since they recognize the PR value. Bona fide superstars either don't engage at all, or simply continue being their cool selves. Celebrities with scandalous reputations are the ones who tend to go off. It's a real nothing show, constructed of footage any real show would simply not be interested in showing. Any three-day trip to Los Angeles will give you as many celebrity sightings, and usually better ones. The episodes are instantly dated, too, as the current "hot" celebrities give way to newer "hot" celebrities, and suddenly, watching late-2003 footage of Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck seems downright retro. Still, there are usually enough amusing moments to pay off a half-hour's vegetation under CU's bland spellcast. My foremost response to CU is to wish the paparazzi would shut the cameras off and let the famous and semi-famous live their lives in peace. They should turn their attention to something more constructive, like making me semi-famous.
Review by La Fée © 2004 |