Can We Stop Trying to Cancel the ‘00s?
The Free Press • • entertainment
Key Points:
- The new Netflix docuseries "Reality Check: Inside America’s Next Top Model" revisits the early 2000s reality show, highlighting its problematic aspects through the lens of modern social values and critiques.
- The series features contemporary influencers reacting with exaggerated shock, framing the show as deeply offensive by today's standards, despite such issues being known at the time.
- This documentary is part of a broader trend dubbed the "Reckoning Industrial Complex," which revisits past pop-culture phenomena to expose behind-the-scenes abuses and generate viewer guilt.
- Similar recent examples include documentaries on Nickelodeon ("Quiet on Set"), Abercrombie & Fitch ("White Hot"), and Britney Spears ("Britney vs Spears"), all focusing on
