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Why ‘I Am Cait’ is an unwatchable mess
NY Post ^ | August 6, 2015 | David Kaufman

Posted on 08/07/2015 1:10:36 PM PDT by Zakeet

Barely two weeks since its debut, E!’s “I Am Cait” is already in serious trouble.

While tabloid interest in and social media chatter about Caitlyn Jenner may remain strong, actual viewer numbers are down — way down! — suggesting that TV’s great transgender hope might actually be a dud on arrival.

The problem with “I Am Cait” isn’t its lack of ambition. If anything, the show suffers from an overdose of the stuff. In less than 60 minutes of screen time, “Cait” shifts from “Real Housewives”-type fluff to Lifetime-like melodrama to “60 Minutes”-style seriousness. There are makeup shots and bikini drama and seemingly endless glasses of Champagne — along with occasional Kardashian, Kanye and junior Jenner cameos thrown in. But mostly, it’s all Cait all the time — awkwardly (and, yes, bravely) negotiating her late-in-life rebirth for all of America to see.

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: absolutemorals; brucejenner; caitlynjenner; iamcait; jenner; lgbt; transgender; transsexual; transvestite
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Personally, I can't imagine why more people wouldn't want to watch the drag queen sip champagne, put on makeup and suffer through a "bikini drama" ... provided, of course, that it's done in good taste.

1 posted on 08/07/2015 1:10:36 PM PDT by Zakeet
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To: Zakeet

*shakes head*


2 posted on 08/07/2015 1:12:14 PM PDT by cardinal4 (Certified Islamophobe and Microaggressor..)
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To: Zakeet

good taste? right...


3 posted on 08/07/2015 1:12:28 PM PDT by brivette (lol~)
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To: brivette

How many households still have dryers with the glass windows? I’d find that more entertaining.


4 posted on 08/07/2015 1:14:09 PM PDT by Vigilanteman (Obama: Fake black man. Fake Messiah. Fake American. How many fakes can you fit in one Zer0?)
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To: Zakeet

If you have to ask.....


5 posted on 08/07/2015 1:15:51 PM PDT by ealgeone
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To: Zakeet

mental illness on parade


6 posted on 08/07/2015 1:15:59 PM PDT by GeronL (Phony Crony Trump is a Chump, Cruz is for real, 100%)
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To: Zakeet

Say, if Bruce Jenner goes missing, will his picture be on a carton of Half and Half?


7 posted on 08/07/2015 1:16:37 PM PDT by TBP (Obama lies, Granny dies.)
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To: Zakeet

It’s an unwatchable mess because a show about a mentally ill man, created, written and produced by mentally ill people does not make for the ‘entertainment it’s marketed to be.

If one looks at it as an academic study on insanity as part of a PHD thesis in insanity it might have value.


8 posted on 08/07/2015 1:17:54 PM PDT by Norm Lenhart
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To: Vigilanteman

I do! Come over and bring wine! Bring your wash, too, if you like ...


9 posted on 08/07/2015 1:17:54 PM PDT by Tax-chick ("All the time live the truth with love in your heart." ~Fr. Ho Lung)
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To: Zakeet
There's a run in his pantyhose. How will he deal with it? And what does PETA have to say about the leopard print dress?

Is this the kind of drama viewers can expect if they tune in?

10 posted on 08/07/2015 1:18:10 PM PDT by SamAdams76
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To: Zakeet
Milton Berle and the Monty Python crew were all much funnier in the drag role.

It would have been better if he changed his name to Brucella.

11 posted on 08/07/2015 1:18:58 PM PDT by dead (I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
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To: Zakeet
He looks ridiculous.

And by the way, this show is NOT about making trannies feel better about themselves, empowering themselves, fostering respect for trannies .... which was basically the context of his ESPY speech.

This show is about him. Bruce is just the male version of a Kardashian. This is all about him and publicity and making money. That's it. Just like his bimbo step daughters.

12 posted on 08/07/2015 1:19:40 PM PDT by Lizavetta
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LOL! That sounds like fun if only North Carolina wasn't so far away . . .

Cute brood, BTW, on your Freeper page!

13 posted on 08/07/2015 1:21:29 PM PDT by Vigilanteman (Obama: Fake black man. Fake Messiah. Fake American. How many fakes can you fit in one Zer0?)
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To: Zakeet

That’s a man, baby.


14 posted on 08/07/2015 1:21:33 PM PDT by sarasota
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To: Zakeet
Bruce Jenner was 'boring' before....growing ones hair, putting on a dress and heels, and having a boob job isn't going to do anything more than be seen as an older man in his later years playing dress up.


15 posted on 08/07/2015 1:21:47 PM PDT by caww
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To: Zakeet

The elites who run the MSM (and the country) are sure this concept will be a huge winner.


16 posted on 08/07/2015 1:22:09 PM PDT by Steely Tom (Vote GOP: A Slower Handbasket)
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To: Zakeet

I would rather lick lead paint off my walls!


17 posted on 08/07/2015 1:23:22 PM PDT by Syntyr (Happiness is two at low eight!)
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To: Vigilanteman

Thanks!

I guess you’ll have to go to the Laundromat.


18 posted on 08/07/2015 1:24:33 PM PDT by Tax-chick ("All the time live the truth with love in your heart." ~Fr. Ho Lung)
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To: Zakeet

Because who wants to puke watching TV?


19 posted on 08/07/2015 1:25:51 PM PDT by nhwingut (This tagline for lease)
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To: Zakeet

The comment section might give all of us hope. Everyone recognizes this as either a mental illness or publicity stunt ... or both.


20 posted on 08/07/2015 1:28:39 PM PDT by Lizavetta
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