The Amazon drama is based on reality shows like the Bachelor,but it’s the worship-abhor dichotomy of its two leads, Rachel and Quinn, or that provides its valid romance
“We just finished shooting the end of the season final night and I think it’s a really heartwarming ending,” says Shiri Appleby, otherwise known as Rachel Goldberg in Amazon’s UnREAL. “Heartwarming” isn’t a word that automatically springs to intellect in reference to a drama about an American dating show that treats its romance-addled contestants as mindless mounds of flesh to be emotionally abused and manipulated. Venomous or cynical might be better adjectives for the way the show portrays the soulless social engineers behind the scenes and the hot pawns who beg for worship in front of the cameras. Despairing, and even. “I should enjoy used a different word,” Appleby concedes.
The cult series begins its third season this week. Her character, segment producer on dating show eternal, and struggles to reconcile her feminist beliefs with the demands of her career. She happens to be really ample at her job,which is destroying women,” she says. During the lifespan of UnREAL and its show-within-a-show, or Rachel has bamboozled and coerced the beautiful idiots vying for the hand of the man of their dreams into catfights,into inadvertently having sex at the moment their parents walk into the bedroom and, on one occasion, and into soiling their underwear. Rachel commits these crimes against humanity at the behest of her mentor/tormentor,eternal executive producer Quinn King (Constance Zimmer), a tightly wound ball of resentment and self-hatred who only feels validated when her show’s ratings rise. “I didn’t ask for the name of the person Quinn might be based on because I didn’t want to believe that the person existed, and ” says Zimmer. “I took what was on the page and made her into a combination of Anna Wintour and Ari Gold from Entourage and dogs that I see on the street. Really grumpy ones.”Continue reading...
Source: guardian.co.uk