Archivesdespite real elements, The Trench is “a gimmicky treatment of history.”
On Friday at 9 p.m., BBC2 will air The Trench, a reality TV show that “asks a group of contemporary men to spend two weeks living in dug-out mud in France, reconstructing the lives of soldiers in the trenches in 1916,” according to The Guardian’s Mark Lawson. He asks what the difference between this show and one where “a hundred volunteers relive the experience of the victims of the Nazi death-camps,” and finds that the show is mostly “a gimmicky treatment of history.”
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The Trench is “a gimmicky treatment of history.”
link to this story + posted Mar. 13, 2002 at 7:39 AM by Andy Dehnart
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