'Secret Millionaire' set for Fox
The network is set to announce "Secret Millionaire," a new series from RDF USA in which wealthy benefactors go undercover in impoverished neighborhoods. For about 10 days, a multimillionaire meets financially destitute locals and experiences what it's like to live on a meager budget for the first time in their lives. At the show's conclusion, the millionaire reveals his true identity to the community and gives a minimum of $100,000 of his own money to at least one deserving person.
Emphasis added by me.
This is ghastly.
How the hell can someone from the upper strata even begin to experience what someone at the bottom does every damned day?
And in just ten days this person is going to be enlightened?
In just ten days this person is going to judge who's "deserving?"
This reminds me of the self-serving articles that were published beginning in the 1980s by so-called journalists playing "homeless" and then writing about it. As if they could fake the existential, like dressing up as a character on Halloween!
Go ask this guy what's it all about.
What's next, Fox?
Mystery Patient? Someone goes undercover in a hospice to play terminally ill and decides who gets a miracle operation or a lavish funeral or lump sum of money to pass on to survivors?
How about Murder For Hire? Someone poses as a hitman for hire and then you provide fake proof of the murder? If the person who did the hiring shows remorse, you don't press charges. Otherwise, in come the cops to make an arrest! Yeah, you can delude yourself there too that you're doing something "good."
Dennis Potter was right when he named his main terminal cancer tumor after Rupert Murdoch.
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