‘Fly Girls’: ‘Contrived Connivances’

Travel Blog  •  Eva Holland  •  03.29.10 | 1:28 PM ET

Slate television critic Troy Patterson takes down the new reality show:

[Y]ou will need to stow your aesthetic judgment in the overhead compartment to enjoy “Fly Girls,” which parades the usual nonsense ... The Fly Girls’ trumped-up arguments are processed beefs. Their romantic travails are as inconsequential as the shabby guys they’re trysting with. The show fails to exploit the comedy-of-errors potential inherent to flight-attendant narratives, the coming-and-going-and-getting-laid-over farcical possibilities explored by classic texts from “Boeing Boeing” to “Three’s a Crowd.”

The Los Angeles Times’ Robert Lloyd is similarly unimpressed. Variety piles on.

Tags: Airworld, Pop Culture Travel, Television, News and Briefs

Eva Holland is the senior editor of World Hum. She is an associate editor at Up Here and Up Here Business magazines, and her writing has also appeared in Reader's Digest Canada, NationalGeographic.com, the National Post, the Montreal Gazette, the Ottawa Citizen and WestJet's Up! Magazine, among other publications. She's based in Canada's Yukon territory.


1 Comment for ‘Fly Girls’: ‘Contrived Connivances’

lordaRaG0n 04.05.10 | 10:41 AM ET

that`s kinda sad

Commenting is not available in this weblog entry.