Jeers: A Loose Definition of Reality
Pam Girl on the Loose courtesy E!
Jeers to Pam Anderson for insisting that her new E! series,
Pam: Girl on the Loose, isn't a reality show but rather, "an eight-part documentary." What sets it apart from, say,
Denise Richards: It's Complicated? Aside from Anderson's admirable decision not to show her kids' faces on camera, not much. Sure, there are fancy visuals - split screens, grainy film stocks, annoyingly Perez Hiltonesque graffiti scrawls - but the content is all-too-familiar. Pam cooks with her mom, hangs out in Vegas with her celeb pals, sells her old stuff for charity. Oh, and she's got the standard reality-TV accessory: a put-upon assistant. Pam may not be real (at least parts of her aren't), but that doesn't mean her show's not "reality."
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