“THE ACTORS: ULTIMATE B.S.” ON NETFLIX.

BRILLIANT “ACTOR WORKSHOP” TYPE OF REALITY SHOW LITERALLY CAPTURES BULLSH*T ARTISTS AT THE ABSOLUTE TOP OF THEIR GAME

Some people fail to recognize that acting is an art.

Not everyone has the talent.

Those people need to watch THE ACTORS.

The premise of this Netflix “happening” is that true-life developing actors are put into actual situations and must convince real people in that field that the thespian really is who they say they are.

And if they don’t, they are killed.

The new Netflix reality show is a variant on their innovative genre of the faux documentary series. Watching how believably the show pulls off its outrageous idea, and imagining the people out there who would believe it was actually occurring, is part of the fun.

The unknown, or mostly-unknown, acting contestants really are put to a frightening challenge, and have only 1 day to prepare. Seeing some of them ace the deadly improv exercise is fantastic–while watching others fail is cringingly hilarious.

The scenarios are intrinsically interesting anyway, with a complex narrative that the actor has to try to figure out just by being thrown into the situation and doing their best(!) as we watch with inescapable fear.

Experience a young Lithuanian actor with an accent who seems totally clueless and ill-suited suddenly rise to the challenge of portraying a mafia lieutenant as he meets with real-life rival goombahs in a New York steakhouse. Talk about stress.

Experience a fearsomely-gifted female actress pull off both a meeting with CIA handlers, and the subsequent assignment to infiltrate a Greek-based gang making an arms deal with white supremacists. Her squirming every time she gets a smidge of freedom hits home, and her flawless improvised dialogue makes it a watch-it-again amazement.

There are actors thrown in with crooked cops, with highly-trained, jargon-bantering ER doctors and night-court lawyers, there’s a coroner convention that has to be seen to believed (what a bunch of weirdos) and a 29 year old actor who fails painfully at a 21-Jump-Street styled high school undercover operation.

Each show pits 2 actors against each other to see how they do.

At the end of each one, if the actor doesn’t get high marks from the panel and the real-world individuals, boom. They go bye-bye.

The deaths each fit the career environment: a mafia splatdown off a big building, a faked cop run-in that ends in “tragic shooting,” a suffocation in a coffin at a coroner’s convention, being pulled apart by truckers’ big rigs, etcetera, etcetera.

The show is a pure blast compared to other reality shows.

Give it a go.

As for the controversy of some of the losing contestants being reported as actually missing by their loved ones, is there any doubt that those claims are pure publicity-seeking by desperate actors trying yet another scam to hit the big time?

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