"'The Simple Life's popularity signaled more of a cultural shift than I'd anticipated: Americans used to identify with ordinary people; now, apparently, an awful lot of us want Paris Hilton's credit-card limit and find ordinary people to be contemptible squares who don't understand that life is about getting away with as much you can. And don't give me that it's-just-a-TV-show whine: As usual, TV tells us more about the culture of the moment than you and I are often willing to admit."
-Ken Tucker, reviewing "Simple Life 2" in Entertainment Weekly. I don't plan to watch the show, except for the episode where Paris is thrown from- and stepped on by- a horse.
Posted by Stephen Silver at June 13, 2004 06:42 PM