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This show was very tedious. Typical repetitive, pun-laden voiceover, reminding us constantly what we've seen over the last two minutes ("Orla's dad is a Right Hon... but ew her socks had a right HUM!") and grinding the same gags into the ground.
Most problematically, it was a fraud. They didn't really show the girl how to be clean or improve her hygiene routines, hence perhaps teaching us all something interesting.
She was a freakishly dirty bitch who got up wearing her clothes, sprayed on Impulse instead of showering, didn't launder her undies and had dental glue stuck to her teeth.
What she needed was a lesson in radically changing her washing habits, just to get them back to normal.
What she got, some of it bafflingly, was
1. the glue cleaned off (this was abnormal anyway, so pretty unrepresentative)
2. a shower (most obvious of all solutions)
3. a hair cut and dye job (nothing to do with cleanliness really)
4. lessons in how to walk like a debutante (nothing at all to do with cleanliness)
I don't really mind if documentary-type shows are made to be trashy and entertaining -- or I do, but I accept that's the way things are in the 21st century. I do object if they miss their point entirely. The show was barely about hygiene at all, in the end -- it was a conventional "let's give you a day at the salon" makeover, made even more ridiculous by the fact that this girl was loaded and could afford posh beauty treatment whenever she'd wanted, if she'd wanted to.
Finally, the shots of bacteria were so obviously just inserted library footage for shock value, rather than having any relation to the objects we were looking at (close up of a test tube cuts to a green-tinged microscopic image of wormy beasties) that the whole science part was clearly happy to base itself on visual lies. |
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