[Favorite skills-based competitions not mentioned in that article: Wickedly Perfect,
Tuesday, August 6, 2013
YOU'RE THE ONE THAT I WANT: Vulture's Margaret Lyons explains why skills-based competitions are the best subgenre of reality tv, which is as good a hook as any to alert you to the fact that HBO's Hard Knocks returns this evening, once more with the Cincinnati Bengals. As I once wrote, Hard Knocks is "a documentary about an aspect of real life that happens to function like reality tv, only the same competition would have happened even had no cameras been there." And while it has only rarely achieved Full Slapdick, it has never not been great.
[Favorite skills-based competitions not mentioned in that article: Wickedly Perfect,Tough Enough (whoops: mentioned), ESPN's Dream Job, The Contender, Project Greenlight, Rock Star, and the one in the title.]
[Favorite skills-based competitions not mentioned in that article: Wickedly Perfect,
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