The New Yorker has written one of the best articles on The Hills eva!
Here are a few of the HIGHlights from their piece:
– “Most of the conversations start with one or another of the girls asking Lauren what she did the night before, and, constant as the questions are, they seem to be asked not out of curiosity but out of obligation, as if the girls were being paid to ask├óΓé¼ΓÇ¥as, indeed, they are.”
– “As for Lauren, she is smart enough to get as much gold as she can out of ├óΓé¼┼ôThe Hills├óΓé¼┬¥ before it├óΓé¼Γäós too late, and has started a fashion line, for which she has received, naturally, an undue amount of press attention, even though the clothes are sub-Old Navy in design.”
– “I have yet to hear any character on the show say something interesting or funny…or see anything that expands my sense of what it├óΓé¼Γäós like to be a young person in Los Angeles.”
– “But The Hills isn├óΓé¼Γäót aiming to stimulate or inspire; I think people watch it mostly to figure out why they├óΓé¼Γäóre watching it. For younger viewers├óΓé¼ΓÇ¥who are the intended audience for the series├óΓé¼ΓÇ¥it may be a soothing fantasy about coming of age, and give them the sense that even after they leave their parents├óΓé¼Γäó house they will still be the center of attention, the way these girls are.