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I really enjoyed the dark playfulness of this satirical sendup of contemporary television.
An interesting exploration of how we shape our own realities, not so much by how we fictionalize our surroundings, but instead how the fictions in our own lives ultimately structure what we understand or perceive to be real. For me, the central story of the collection -- both in terms of theme and actual placement in the text -- is a pilot episode that takes as its subject the faked moon landing (not an investigation into possible fakery, but a speculative show that assumes the nation is already...
Pop culture is a mirror of society, but what about a mirror of one man? One desperate, unhappy TV executive, for instance? James Brubaker's brief but dense odyssey into television tropes unearths the sad, hypocritical framework that modern ideas of beauty, economy and relationships are based, and presents them in an uncanny way that gives depth to the smiling faces splattered across the tube. Each pilot is described in about 3 pages or less; any more and the onslaught of sad suburban robots, rig...
"Pilot Season by James Brubaker is a catalogue of American dreams, superstitions, stereotypes, beliefs, ideals, frailties, phobias, desires, and everything in between. If television is a mirror into the soul of the modern consumer, televised listings represent the mired ambitions that struggle to breakout and achieve the ultimate dream of celebrity, decorated by brand-name commercials."Full review at Electric Literature.http://electricliterature.com/review-...
Pilot Season had an interesting premise. How does a jaded TV executive view the new shows on his network's pilot roster? Is there anything interesting among the recycled reality shows, the generic scifi and teen dramedies? Unfortunately for Pilot Season, the answer appears to be no. This short collection details everything that is wrong with today's popular television tropes, without revealing anything redeeming or surprising about them.
Funny/sad collection of witty, fictional TV pilots that I'd desperately want to see ("Clanking Replicator") or steadfastly avoid like Legionnaire's Disease ("Sober"). There is a simultaneous love of television as well as a hyperawareness of the fairly limited conceits with which the medium is all too often burdened in Brubaker's collection. Can't wait for the next one.
Totally bizarre, occasionally hilarious, and always hitting a bit too close to home.
