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Effortless idiocy ... Beauty and the Geek Australia. Beauty and the Beast is a centuries-old story of the redemptive power of love and the deceptive nature of appearances. It has inspired operas, novels, art, plays, musicals, films and Ashton Kutcher. He is the creator of Beauty and the Geek, a reality show that, like Big Brother, takes its name from a literary allusion almost certainly lost on a vast number of its participants.The premise is merely scaffolding upon which to hang stupidity and awkwardness. A selection of ''beauties'' and a group of ''geeks'' are paired to compete for $100,000 and a car each. The winning couple is the one that forms a close bond, facilitates personal growth and illuminates to their partner hitherto undervalued dimensions of human existence, before never seeing each other again.A lot of TV rots the brain but I have a soft spot for shows about people whose brains are already rotted. The beauties exhibit an almost effortless idiocy and the picture sometimes shakes from the suppressed laughter of the camera operator.As for the job descriptions, I didn't know there were so many words for ''beautician''. Among the contestants are also a high-heel collector and a Barbie enthusiast, terms usually used to describe either the unemployed or a serial killer. Mind you, it's hard to be punctual for job interviews when you think ''25 hours is almost two days''.Beauty and the Geek Australia is basically a canvas to explore the final taboo of modern dating: interfacial couples. Romance of this nature can work for a few reasons: either the man is rich and has a great personality or he's a jerk and she's an idiot.For these geeks, there must be a more apt expression than ''punching above your weight'', given they seem physically incapable of forming a fist.
The beauties are doubtless seduced by the exposure and prizes but the geeks are giddy just to have women held captive in a mansion without having to pay by the hour or be in fear of jocks swinging by to cut their grass.BATG is one of television's most tightly choreographed reality shows and you can almost hear the producers put contestants up to all manner of madcap spontaneity: a beauty is sent into the bathroom to collect her tweezers at the exact moment they are two inches up a geek's nose; a geek's clothes are thrown out the window in full view of the cameraman waiting downstairs; a geek makes a beauty's bed in the hope the gesture helps her like him. Spurious justifications for improbable scenarios are now a stock of the genre. And, anyway, badly performed domestic playlets don't stage themselves.The only concern for pop psychologists is that the beauties are too naive to exercise their rights and the geeks are too meek to protest degradation.The girls, who are unselfconsciously vain, must fight temptation to make over the boys before the professionals polish them at the close of the competition. By season's end, the viewer hopes the beauties pick up some knowledge, the beauties hope to pick up some cash and the geeks just hope to pick up.
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Effortless idiocy ... Beauty and the Geek Australia. Beauty and the Beast is a centuries-old story of the redemptive power of love and the deceptive nature of appearances. It has inspired operas, novels, art, plays, musicals, films and Ashton Kutcher. He is the creator of Beauty and the Geek, a reality show that, like Big Brother, takes its name from a literary allusion almost certainly lost on a vast number of its participants.The premise is merely scaffolding upon which to hang stupidity and awkwardness. A selection of ''beauties'' and a group of ''geeks'' are paired to compete for $100,000 and a car each. The winning couple is the one that forms a close bond, facilitates personal growth and illuminates to their partner hitherto undervalued dimensions of human existence, before never seeing each other again.A lot of TV rots the brain but I have a soft spot for shows about people whose brains are already rotted. The beauties exhibit an almost effortless idiocy and the picture sometimes shakes from the suppressed laughter of the camera operator.As for the job descriptions, I didn't know there were so many words for ''beautician''. Among the contestants are also a high-heel collector and a Barbie enthusiast, terms usually used to describe either the unemployed or a serial killer. Mind you, it's hard to be punctual for job interviews when you think ''25 hours is almost two days''.Beauty and the Geek Australia is basically a canvas to explore the final taboo of modern dating: interfacial couples. Rom
ance of this nature can work for a few reasons: either the man is rich and has a great personality or he's a jerk and she's an idiot.For these geeks, there must be a more apt expression than ''punching above your weight'', given they seem physically incapable of forming a fist.
The beauties are doubtless seduced by the exposure and prizes but the geeks are giddy just to have women held captive in a mansion without having to pay by the hour or be in fear of jocks swinging by to cut their grass.BATG is one of television's most tightly choreographed reality shows and you can almost hear the producers put contestants up to all manner of madcap spontaneity: a beauty is sent into the bathroom to collect her tweezers at the exact moment they are two inches up a geek's nose; a geek's clothes are thrown out the window in full view of the cameraman waiting downstairs; a geek makes a beauty's bed in the hope the gesture helps her like him. Spurious justifications for improbable scenarios are now a stock of the genre. And, anyway, badly performed domestic playlets don't stage themselves.The only concern for pop psychologists is that the beauties are too naive to exercise their rights and the geeks are too meek to protest degradation.The girls, who are unselfconsciously vain, must fight temptation to make over the boys before the professionals polish them at the close of the competition. By season's end, the viewer hopes the beauties pick up some knowledge, the beauties hope to pick up some cash and the geeks just hope to pick up.