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- NBC
- Aug 13, 2012
- NBC
- Aug 13, 2012
Summary General Wesley Clark (retired) and Samantha Harris host the competitive reality show where Laila Ali, Dean Cain, Terry Crews, Nick Lachey, Todd Palin, Dolvett Quince, Picabo Street, and Eve Torres compete in military-inspired missions.
- NBC
- Aug 13, 2012
- NBC
- Aug 13, 2012
Summary General Wesley Clark (retired) and Samantha Harris host the competitive reality show where Laila Ali, Dean Cain, Terry Crews, Nick Lachey, Todd Palin, Dolvett Quince, Picabo Street, and Eve Torres compete in military-inspired missions.
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Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 9 Critic Reviews
51
11% Positive
1 Review
1 Review
78% Mixed
7 Reviews
7 Reviews
11% Negative
1 Review
1 Review
Once they stop jawin', the competitors in Stars Earn Stripes put on quite a show, and that's the only point of reality television.
Whatever else you make of it--and it's enough to say that if you like this sort of thing, you will like this thing--it's all, or partly, for a good cause.
The stunts are a confusing mix of bullets and blowups: Apocalypse Now on the scale of Wipeout. [3 Sep 2012, p.40]
Though in this inaugural episode the easygoing personalities of the celebrities and the respect everyone shows each other is nice, no one seems able to admit to anger or frustration or any of the other real emotions that bond an audience to the competitors.
While hardly a breakthrough on any level--indeed, about as unoriginal as the genre gets--if the goal is simply to keep the torch flickering between the Games and the fall season, mission probably accomplished.
Overall, the first installment was yet another overbloated, two-hour NBC reality marathon, The Biggest Loser with live ammo and C-list celebrities.
When grenade launchers, automatic weapons and war games substitute for salsa and swing dancing, the results are less wholesome entertainment and more armed-forces propaganda.
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