Hacker CinemaNext Top Model
TV series · 60 min episodes · 2 seasons
Next Top Model is a reality documentary and the Romanian version of Tyra Banks' America's Next Top Model. It places contestants against each other in a variety of tests in order to determine who will win title of Romania's Next Top Model along with a lucrative 4 year-long modelling contract with MRA Models worth 50,000 Euros. The competition is hosted by romanian fashion designer Cătălin Botezatu making him the fifth male host of the international Top Model franchise after Fyodor Bondarchuk, Alexander Tsekalo, Jay Manuel and Nathan Lee. The panel is completed by photographer Gabriel Hennessey, Make-Up Artist Mirela Vascan, Hair Stylist Laurent Tourette and model agent Livio Ionescu.
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Well, we now have positive queer role models in other shows mixed in with those caricatures, which is leaps and bounds above what we used to have. Go back and watch In Living Color's Men On Film, which is one of the more "positive" portrayals. I find it incredibly cringeworthy today.
Shows like Next Top Model and Queer Eye play up their queerness for ratings, but that's actually progress: queer folks (actually played by other queer folks, not straight people parodying us) are being queer on camera, and people want to watch them for that. Millions of people. It's actually the point of those shows. That's huge!
Commonly people's first reaction to things they don't understand or things that are unusual is fear. I used to resent Will and Grace for being over the top, contrived, and playing on stereotypes. But I think, like Big Bang Theory, however cringeworthy the humor is, they've both put gay folks and nerdiness in prime television slots. People watch them, and they become less "foreign" to millions of televison watchers. They're made relateable (simply because not as many folks would watch it if it wasn't), and in turn nerdiness and queerness are made relateable and understandable. I don't need to watch either, but... I don't have to. It's not for me.