I want to hear your thoughts on this. I still don't know what was fake and real, but this episode made me feel extremely uncomfortable.
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However, it's clear that the show recognized and tried to address what was clearly the exploitation of a fatherless child. I haven't fully formed my thoughts on this yet, but I feel like this show was a critique of reality TV and how it exploits the raw emotions of its participants for cheap entertainment. When shown with an innocent child who can't necessarily differentiate between what is real and what isn't, it becomes very obvious and very disturbing.
All in all this show was a work of art regardless, I can't tell if Nathan is a complete sociopath or was actually speaking to us when he was saying that it was all pretend. What a wild ride Jesus christ
I have a lot of thoughts about it, but never forget that whatever Nathan thinks his motivation is, the show exists to make money. So it's pretty gross, even if it's entertaining
Meh. The way he built everything up, it almost felt like a massive make-work project for aspiring actors.
You can bag on him for "being in the profit making system" when he highlights how child actors are treated, but that doesn't make his observations any less real or relevant. He could just as easily have ended on a total bullshit "look at how great child actors are treated"coda. If all he cared about was money, that would have been the smarter move.
Seriously. The actors on the show were fantastic, and that he was able to give so many of them so much screen time was really good.
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