Comments on: The Tester http://blog.commarts.wisc.edu/2010/01/31/the-tester/ Responses to Media and Culture Fri, 12 Feb 2016 19:35:04 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.7.5 By: Jonathan Gray http://blog.commarts.wisc.edu/2010/01/31/the-tester/comment-page-1/#comment-370 Wed, 03 Feb 2010 17:35:40 +0000 http://blog.commarts.wisc.edu/?p=1454#comment-370 So we can expect New York to make a return as a tester?

]]> By: Nina Huntemann http://blog.commarts.wisc.edu/2010/01/31/the-tester/comment-page-1/#comment-343 Tue, 02 Feb 2010 19:25:52 +0000 http://blog.commarts.wisc.edu/?p=1454#comment-343 Trailer for The Tester just released by Sony. The crying during judging is really hard to take seriously or even humorously. It just looks a bit dumb. But heh, it does come from the producers of Flavor of Love so I shall hold my full review until February 18.

http://www.viddler.com/explore/sceablog/videos/759/

]]> By: Jonathan Gray http://blog.commarts.wisc.edu/2010/01/31/the-tester/comment-page-1/#comment-329 Mon, 01 Feb 2010 17:47:38 +0000 http://blog.commarts.wisc.edu/?p=1454#comment-329 Cynically, I’m right on line with your friend’s suggestion that it’s like auditions to become a fry cook. Of course, your post coincided with the Global Game Jam, so I’m wondering why couldn’t it at least be a show to see who gets to design the next game? I foresee a whole wave of second-rate knockoffs on established reality show formats: The Amazing Race: Check-in Attendants, Survivor: Obstacle Course Assembler, Project Runway: Cloth Dyer, and American Idol: Soundcheck Staff. IF the point of The Tester was to indeed look at the seedy side of the job and to analyze the power differentials, etc., sure, just as I might watch all of the above if that was their role — but a show where people are competing to be treated poorly seems to up reality TV’s already sizeable ante of masochism.

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