"You don't just win the prize--you STEAL it!"

[rocktivity]

So goes the slogan for Impossible Heists, premiering tonight on Court TV.

"It's like Ocean's 11 meets Survivor!" brags their web site. "Two teams...are challenged to execute a complex and physically demanding heist while trying to elude the highest-tech security..." And by an incredible stroke of good fortune, all of the contestants (or should they be called perps?) are total hotties!


(One minority? Check. One Spanish-sounding name? Check. Co-ed? Check. Any homosexuals? Hopefully.)

Since when is grand theft something to be admired and encouraged? Should this be considered "reality" TV, let alone "entertainment?" And should it be on Court TV, who are supposed to be on the side of law and order? I enjoy their real-crime shows (except the psychic ones), but maybe that's because you don't have to wonder who the good guys are.

Maybe this wouldn't bother me so much if it weren't so soon after the Nichols rampage. And the church massacre. And the four-year-old putting a gun to his younger brother's head. And the gun that went off in a 7-year-old's bookbag during class. And the guy who axe-murdered an acquaintence on a publicly traveled street in broad daylight (I guess HE couldn't get his hands on a gun). And the Texan who may have finished a bar fight by firing through the sunroof of a Jaguar...How did lawlessness become so--so POP?

:shrug:
rocknation

[itzamirakul]

1. The Sopranos has romanticized the Mafia...

BushCo has blatantly lied to and stolen from the entire world and then swore it was not true while doing the crime directly in front of your vision so what is wrong with this program?

The next will be "Committing the Perfect Murder" The rightwing supporters of Bush will love it while they continue to lose their jobs, their homes, their cars and will not even be able to fall back on foodstamps.

Let's see...another show could be:

"Hungry? No FoodStamps? Let's see how well you can steal from the supermarket before you are caught and beaten with a baseball bat."

[VelvetMonkeyWrench]

2. ha ha ha - we already had "the perfect murder" show...

...played nationwide for almost a year

...it was the OJ murder trial ;->

[itzamirakul]

3. But OJ doesn't count because

the whole thing has to be played out like a game with contestants vying for the title of perfect murderer. In OJ's case, he was the only suspect...no game there...

[rocktivity]

4. Yes, The Sopranos and Oceans Eleven are "romantic"

but even though they allow you to identify with the bad guys, you know they're STILL bad guys. Apparently Impossible Heists expects you to root against the high tech security system which represent the forces of good and justice.

The shoplifting show sounds good, but I think Commiting The Perfect Murder is thinking too small. How about a "Serial Killer-Palooza? Two contestants kill as many people as possible (earning $10,000 per corpse) before being caught by the panel of celebrity sleuths!

:headbang:
rocknation

[tom_paine]

5. The Mafia has been romanticized for DECADES, it didn't just start with

The Sopranos.

I agree with the rest of your post.