From an MTV press release about one of their new fall shows, The Stylist:
This new reality series follows a diverse group of struggling junior assistants as they toil for three glamorous, highly successful celebrity stylists. The series follows the young junior assistants on the job – music videos, movie premieres, photo shoots – and in their personal lives as they find romance, plot against each other, and try to make it big in a cut-throat industry. At the end of each season, one junior assistant will be signed to a stylist contract with the Margaret Maldonado agency. The Stylist turns the reality competition format upside-down, with no staged challenges or eliminations. The jobs are real, the stakes are real and for these young people, the prospect of success or failure is very real. Organic performance evaluations will always allow the viewer a sense of who’s ahead and who’s in trouble. And because the junior assistants are always faced with the knowledge that only one of them will get signed, they are always looking into the faces of their competition.
A couple of things.
1. What the fuck is an organic performance evaluation? Is it made of soy? Does it require compost?
2. The show is produced by Bunim-Murray, the people responsible for The Real World and – even better – The Real World/Road Rules Challenge. Will Coral be on this show to make fun of the assistants? Because I would watch that.
3. Why did they choose this title? Are they aware of the existence of Stylista?
4. “Cutthroat” is one word, no dashes.
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