Sometime last year, my girlfriend and I started having a friend over to watch Gossip Girl, a truly terrible prime time soap opera for teenagers. (Naturally, I really enjoy watching it.) When the season ended, we decided to continue watching programming made for children and settled on Make It or Break It, another drama, this time about gymnasts training for the national championships.
While many parts were incredibly unrealistic and silly, the show actually wasn’t that bad. Maybe I was just starved for some sports on TV, having recently finished watching the third season of Friday Night Lights, but I found it well done for a kids’ drama — especially one on ABC Familiy, home of The Secret Life of the American Teenager, the worst show in television history. There were even some excellent dramatic scenes in the season’s final episode.
Of course, there was also the above, perhaps the most blatant product placement in television history. Yes, the commercial and scene were one directly after another. And the product being plugged was Britney Spears’ new line from Kohls. The mind boggles.
2 years ago