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Push Girls

June 8, 2012 by Susan Donnelly

This week I found out that Reality TV doesn’t have to be mind-numbing.  This was thanks to the first episode of a new series called Push Girls.  It’s standard Reality fare – about breakups, hookups, stalled careers, friends and frenemies, babies yes or babies no – all served up with an occasional meltdown.  But on most reality shows I have trouble keeping the female  characters straight – they all look alike to me.  The Push Girls are stunningly beautiful, but without the cookie-cutter sameness of most reality stars.  I wasn’t even thrown off by the fact that all four women are wheelchair users.  A savvy producer has introduced the chairs as a subplot, as something secondary to dating, work, budgets, and all the other things that absorb the lives of young women.  Difference is not presented as defective. Even in a world where no two snowflakes are alike, that can still be a difficult concept to embrace.  Generally life is easier if one can walk, and see, and hear, and think.  But the assumption that the absence of these automatically entails a lesser life stems from fear or misinformation, not reality. And it seems this particular reality show aims, along the way, to demonstrate just that.  Here’s hoping the Push Girls start a wave.  So that at some point the lowest common denominator is no longer the only reality on Reality TV.

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Comments

  1. Kathryn says

    June 25, 2012 at 1:19 pm

    I agree that reality tv shows are annoying and there are way too many of them. but it is nice to know that at least some of them have good points! i will have to check this one out – thanks : )

  2. Aaron says

    June 23, 2012 at 12:33 pm

    I personally hate reality TV shows because I feel that they portray situations that are the most unrealistic than anything else on television. However, this show sounds quite interesting and I should definitively check it out.