Who Wore It Better? High Fashion Satire: 'Boosters' vs. 'Prada 2' | Bohemian | Sonoma & Napa Counties

In the late 1990s, the films The Truman Show (1998) and EDtv (1999) were noted for their uncannily similar premises, in which reality TV shows go to increasingly invasive and unethical extremes in the pursuit of higher ratings.

Who Wore It Better? High Fashion Satire: 'Boosters' vs. 'Prada 2' | Bohemian | Sonoma & Napa Counties. In the late 1990s, the films The Truman Show (1998) and EDtv (1999) were noted for their uncannily similar premises, in which reality TV shows go to increasingly invasive and unethical extremes in the pursuit of higher ratings. So-called “twin films” like these are often explained as the result of studios vying to capitalize (literally) on an idea more successfully than their competitors—I’d argue that they can also be a sign of a society attempting to metabolize troubling social and political realities through reiterative storytelling. For example, Truman and EDtv grappled with the contemporary social anxieties of surveillance and privacy erosion by taking the concept of reality TV to satirical extremes. Filmmaker Boots Riley’s new film...