Last night BET premiered Baldwin Hills, a pseudo-reality show following a dozen or so teenagers who live in a rather affluent area of Los Angeles and one girl from the hood, "the Black Beverly Hills" one of them referred to it as. I see where BET was trying to go with the show, but they still got it all wrong. They chose of group of kids who have defined their identity by watching BET and MTV's My Super Sweet 16! These kids speak the King's English, but rock bandanas around their neck, combated parents, and one 16 year old girl looked like she was in the "Tip Drill" video.
These are the kids of Vanessa Bell Calloway, Reggie Theus and other prominent African-American doctors, lawyers, and businessmen. Yet, for the camera they are the hardest, most spoiled, non-sensible brats ever! BET has taken another step backwards, because now they have mixed the images of the videos in with the sensibilities of the bourgeois, all in the midst of a seriously contrived television show. The show really came of scripted and if it wasn't, these kids are horrible at acting as themselves.
Maybe I missed the good parts because I was busy flipping between SVU, the MLB All-Star Game, wrestling and the Charm School Reunion. Speaking of which, did you see how that crap? Some girls had no reason being there, they barely flashed the camera on Darra, Jennifer, Thela and Cristal. The show should've been two hours of Larissa, Shay, Sapphyri (Did she have some work done?), Brooke & Becky. The hell with Leilene, she's boring! I was waiting for some action! But like usual, it was all talk! Except for when Monique invaded Larissa's personal space and Big Mama got up on the stage.
Guess all you can do is pray for them, cuz some fools just love to perform!
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