Segregation is seeping back into public schools, though we justify it away. Perhaps our discomfort with this TV show is in its reflection of truths in our society.
Well, I'll say this of the first episode of CBS'
Survivor: Cook Islands: the segregation of the cast has not changed the game one bit.
As if it ever would.
It's still a contest of elimination, where only one person will be left to claim the million dollar prize.
And each tribe is populated with the same brand of extroverted, narcissistic people we've seen about a dozen installments before.
Now, of course, the Asian tribe won the first challenge -- a puzzle-building challenge -- and the Black tribe came in last.
Surprise, surprise!
At tribal council, three sistas used their numerical advantage to boot one of the two bruthas.
Surprise, surprise!
You have to ask yourself is this a reflection of real life (because sistas flip the script on bruthas often, and a lot of times you can't blame them when they do) or is it a reflection of the contrived reality of
Survivor life, because smart alliances will always use their numbers to get an edge?
We'll have to watch and see, and be on the lookout for stereotypes.
(Aside, the "lazy Black man" stereotype, a
Survivor staple, already made its appearance in Episode 1; and yeah, he was the brutha who got voted out, by sistas who weren't playing that.)
Now that I think about it, perhaps the show may be more painfully accurate about real real life than I'm willing to admit.
Maybe I'm too drunk on the propaganda called American pop culture, of which this show is a part.
But as for the actual mechanics of the broadcast, it looks and feels like the same
Survivor to me.
The format is pretty worn out by now.