Eugene's Lair posted:Baz posted:Eugene's Lair posted:Just a reminder that the last part of this series is tonight (Wed) at 9pm on C4.
I'm probably not going to do a review of tonight's show. It's not going to be directly about BB, and TBH I'll probably find it too depressing.
That said: if they get into some general Reality TV observations I might reconsider, and if they have any of those gits from OK magazine on I'll definitely be venting some spleen!
Ok Eugene
Sure enough: they had the guy from OK proudly holding up a copy of their "Jade tribute Issue".
Even tried to regain some of the moral high ground with a story about a Sun photographer breaking into Jade's wedding.
It was perhaps inevitable, but there was way too much coverage of Max Clifford for my (and probably everyone-else's) liking.
Again, Dan Evans from NotW gains some credit for his brutal honesty, with a story about how he was told “We need to get the first picture of her with no hair.” - and Max Clifford duly obliged...
I deliberately avoided most of the coverage of Jade's illness at the time because - even allowing for the claims that it encouraged young women to get smear tests done - I found it all unpleasantly mercenary and ghoulish. As a result, I'd forgotten just how extreme it got (worst was a tabloid claim - admittedly unproven - of a plot to photograph Jade in her coffin...) Seeing her enjoying her wedding even though she was in extreme pain was uplifting, though.
Throughout, the series persisted in trying to show how Jade was not just at the vanguard but even helped create the modern "Realty TV" world, but their closing attempt to link Jade's story with current aspects of celebrity culture of Jeremy Kyle, Love Island" suicides and even Nigel Farage (
) just felt facile.
For me, the most perceptive comments came from Jeff Brazier: he felt that because Jade took responsibility for creating the hype around her, and because she was open about benefitting from that hype, she didn't feel able to wish it would all go away - even when "she could have done with a breather"...
Thanks Eugene ....interesting summary ...as always 
