11/7/2023 0 Comments Tv show undercover review![]() ![]() ![]() Perhaps it goes more in depth later, but for now, it’s gawking: Look at that! Kids are on their phones and not paying attention! The show even gets close to presenting the high school students it allegedly cares about as assholes who are put down their phones only to be rude to new kids. The problems and solutions are presented in the television equivalent of pointing at things. ![]() The problem is that it is truly unnecessary to send adults in-and that also introduces even more problems, which we’ll get to in a minute. Undercover High, which sends adults into high schools to find out what’s going on, has all of the right pieces: an important part of our society, education, that needs more public attention a polished production, with efficient storytelling and smooth editing and charismatic young stars, both 20-somethings who are pretending to be high school students and some of the actual high school students themselves.Īlas, for the purpose of this show, these pieces are assembled into a Jenga tower: it’s impressive, but once you start pulling out pieces and asking questions, it crumbles.įor its first six minutes, while it’s establishing the strengths and struggles of high school students, Undercover High (A&E, Tuesdays at 10) works brilliantly and had my attention with its clear, unsentimental, nonjudgmental look at high school and the problems.īut then A&E has to be A&E and wedge in some unnecessary artificiality, sending adults in as students at Highland Park High School in Topeka, Kansas.Īrtificiality itself isn’t the problem, because just having camera crews injects the school with artificiality and perhaps self-consciouness that didn’t exist before. ![]()
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