I’ll be watching, like many of the rest of you, it seems, to see whether Pushing Daisies can live up to its pilot, and if the set designers have any new goodies to unveil from that big yard sale that Tim Burton apparently had. But I must also confess–actually, I already have–that I have not yet given up on Kid Nation.
To me, it’s not about the drama of having kids survive in a hardscrabble environment; it’s about the inherent drama of plopping a camera down in the middle of the world’s most elaborate gifted-and-talented class. In which we ask, which is better training for life: being homeschooled or competing in beauty pageants? And what’s to stop the kids from rejecting the capitalist merchant-worker reward system and establishing a socialist worker’s collective? (For which task I nominate the Fidel Castro fan.) Am I all alone here?