Real Crimes is Really Silly
Real Crimes begins each episode with
the following statement: "The events depicted in the following
dramatizations are not real, but something like them could happen someday.
The names have been changed to protect those to whom these events could
happen."
The show is called a "reality" show, but that should be used in the very
loosest possible sense of the word. The reality created by the show is
anything but real. The show further purports to show felonies from the
perspective of innocent bystanders. But the bystanders themselves are hardly
bystanders. I mean, really…how many average small town citizens known
jiu-jitsu and can hack into the FBI fingerprinting computer from a payphone?
And how about that scene where the toothpick thieves are escaping from the
plant? What are the possibilities that a tourist would know how to turn on
the grinder at just that moment?
In short, Real Crimes is a ludicrous excuse to play a bunch of silly
high-action scenes that form no coherent narrative. Then again…if the show
were titled Real Lame, it would appropriate.
This
article originally appeared in "The Odyssey Times," a
special fictional newspaper produced by Focus on the Family to promote
Adventures in Odyssey.
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