Miami gets a "vapid, foul, awful" reality check on Bravo

Yikes. The LA Times covered Bravo's announcement of their upcoming programming, which, contrary to reports that it ended up on the cutting room floor, includes Miami Social, a "show" which actually filmed last summer and will be older than yesterday's Botox by the time it airs. Here's what the Times had to say about it: " 6. "Miami Social" What's to say? This is about seven friends in South Beach, because Bravo execs kept hearing that everyone missed the TV show "Friends." (When did they hear that? The late '90s?) It is the most vapid, foul, awful, self-satisfied group of people ever assembled in the entire world, and it will be a smashing success, even though it is insanely out of touch with the present moment, i.e., the massive, crippling recession and how people actually don't spend all their time poolside on

hotel roofs drinking and being catty and having break-ups and post-break-up sex. These people are just unspeakably God-awful." The show certainly does nothing to dispel the vile image of Miami as a vapid wasteland of superficiality. We hope the "cast"–which includes social butterfly Ariel Stein , professional party host Hardy Hill , and gossip Michael Cohen (hardly best friends off camera, incidentally)— and the city have good legal representation to get them off this train before it really wrecks.To be declared a potential "smashing success" at the expense of one's dignity or decency is a dubious honor to say the least,no? But therein lies the formula for a successful reality show—the vile factor does indeed usually lead to ratings gold.Just ask all those "real" housewives.

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Miami gets a "vapid, foul, awful" reality check on Bravo

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