‘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.

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Eva Holland is co-editor of World Hum. She is a former associate editor at Up Here and Up Here Business magazines, and a contributor to Vela. 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

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