- Network: NBC
- Series Premiere Date: Aug 13, 2012
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Once they stop jawin', the competitors in Stars Earn Stripes put on quite a show, and that's the only point of reality television.
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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.
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[The show] results in a picturesque endeavor that otherwise suffers from a lot of padded redundancy.
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The stunts are a confusing mix of bullets and blowups: Apocalypse Now on the scale of Wipeout. [3 Sep 2012, p.40]
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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.
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[Stars Earn Stripes] drenches a promising premise in a distracting amount of troop-thanking.
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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.
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Overall, the first installment was yet another overbloated, two-hour NBC reality marathon, The Biggest Loser with live ammo and C-list celebrities.
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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.
User score distribution:
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Positive: 4 out of 11
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Mixed: 1 out of 11
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Negative: 6 out of 11
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Aug 14, 2012
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Aug 17, 2012