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There was one brief shoving match on the program, in which a 15 year old "got in the face" of an 11 year old, but most of the program was pretty sedate, if not a bit bland.
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CBS, which had promoted the show as almost exactly that ["Lord of the Flies" for voyeurs], backed down, explaining that Kid Nation was really more of a 40-day character-building exercise, like Outward Bound, but with camera crews and off-camera supervisors. And of course, it turned out to be a little of both, but mostly neither.
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Would the creators of Kid Nation please go to their room for a time-out and come up with something more original?
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It's a mildly entertaining reality series designed to encourage controversy to draw viewers and goose ratings.
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Kid Nation does not mean to find out whether kids can do what adults could not. It means instead to demonstrate that these kids really would die without the intervention of adults.
Awards & Rankings
User score distribution:
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Positive: 20 out of 31
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Mixed: 1 out of 31
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Negative: 10 out of 31
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SusanL.Mar 1, 2008"Lord of the Flies" for reality television. Wait! "Lord of the Flies" IS reality television. Horrid.
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RachelleB.Dec 19, 2007
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MattL.Dec 13, 2007