This two-part Netflix documentary explores the legacy of the controversial talk show 'The Jerry Springer Show', revealing its impact on popular culture and the often exploitative tactics used to create its dramatic moments.
Jerry Springer: Fights, Camera, Action review - gripping film does not flinch from horror unleashed by obnoxious show Television: The tasteless sleaze Springer paraded across the screen has long since been eclipsed by the great dumbing down of culture off camera Talk show host Jerry Springer talks to his guests and audience on the Jerry Springer Show. Photograph: Ralf-Finn Hestoft/Corbis/Getty Imageswas widely agreed to be a harbinger of civilisation’s imminent downfall.
With its duelling Ku Klux Klan members, betrayed lovers and oddballs who took the concept of “animal fancier” much too far, the series was regarded as a trashy canary in a coal mine soon to come crashing down on our heads. What next? Donald Trump in the White House?was where the weirdos congregated before the Internet. That its poison would seep out into the world at large is briefly acknowledged in the horribly fascinating and admirably thorough two-part Netflix documentary Jerry Springer: Fights, Camera, Action, with a cutaway to Donald Trump delivering one of his Punch and Judy election rallies. Yet even as the world was remade in its ding-dong image, the programme itself proved surprisingly resilient. It was cancelled only in 2018 – five years before Springer’s. The late presenter was not interviewed for Fights, Camera, Action and emerges as an ambivalent figure. In person, he seemed charming and humble and made no great claims for the Jerry Springer Show. Far from it: speaking shortly before his death, he accepted that it had “ruined the culture”. Yet that shame did not prevent him from trousering millions from the production and from participating in the humiliation of often poorly educated and shell-shocked guests, typically whipped to a frenzy by cynical producers and unleashed before the cameras. More than once, they were told that if they didn’t deliver the goods punch-up-wise, they would not be supplied with a plane ticket hom
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