Earlier reviews of the show Hungry Beast can be found here.
@lokified So #hungrybeast presents us info without making a point? Tanja offers “Maybe they’re giving us the info so we can make up our own minds.”
I was going to write about this week’s Hungry Beast.
Such as, a rather deft depiction of a 1700s Aboriginal take on immigration, complete with the nod to a “F-OFF We’re Full” abomination of a bumper-sticker. I even thought about writing on how the show was heading into thematically-linked issues and now it seems it’s back to the mosaic of (admittedly slightly longer this time) items that are just Zeitgeisty.
Perhaps I could have acknowledged the rather weird gloom-and-doom Luddite attitude throughout the whole program with the BAD ROBOT / XKCD.com mash-up, or even pointed out that ‘people do use technology as they see fit – are you blaming the machine or the humans for making well-balanced cyber-pack-mules that could do more good than just deliver bombs to grannies in wheelchairs as you suggest?’
Reflecting back, I could have even expected that if they were so dedicated to being anti-technology, that instead of joking-on-the-couch banter, that they’d might rather like to go round defecating in laptops then closing the lids tightly for a very special Windows 7 party celebration?
I could have said I got lost with the lost segment. Personally, having being subjected once again to that over-bubbly badly-wigged aggravatingpresenterisaggravating, who returned to do a heavy-handed Christmas Island refugee ‘funny’… I’d much prefer she got lost. Release the wayward dogs.
…but then saying we have to go to their website if we want to have the really good content after a segment?
Uh huh. I spend far too much time on the internet already, Hungry Beast creators. I’m writing this on my blog, which is a bit of a bloody good indicator of that fact. I want it on the TV, pour favor.
Why am I not writing at length?
Why bother?
Everything Hungry Beast did was promptly and completely overshadowed by John Safran stealing and sniffing the knickers of a Balinese princess.
Sorry, I have to go put more info into that oh-so naughty naughty search engine (by the way: Google takes your lunch money, shoots your dog, burns your ranch and steals your bible! Let me guess – none of the presenters got a Google Wave invite?), in order to see if anyone did ever complain to the ABC about having their underwear stolen.
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Caught it once, by accident, a week or two ago. They were “covering” the “Hey, Hey – Jackson Jive” incident with a question like “Is Australia a racist country?”
To answer that question, they had actors reading comments, mostly about Muslims, from some “letters to the editor”. Naturally the authors of these letters were, for the most part, painting all Muslims as terrorists because some Muslims are terrorists.
Interestingly, HB seemed to be painting all Australians as racists based on this handful of letters. Interesting irony.
Beyond that, I had no idea what I was watching. I think it’s meant to be quirky and I’m too old to get quirk.
I thought it was at least better than Safran, who has gone even more into American Pie parody. :p Gross.
Blerggghhhh this show!!!! I really dislike being talked down to by a bunch of undergrads who think they’ve just invented social conscience.
Heard it all before, kids.
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