The Swan: Behind the Mirror
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More than twenty years after The Swan became one of reality television's most controversial shows, the women who went under the knife and the producers behind the show sit down to reflect on what really happened behind the scenes.
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Matt Roush says...
At the other extreme of reality TV was The Swan, a ghoulish exercise in exploitation that aired in 2004 on Fox, which continually tested the boundaries of taste during that anything-goes era. A new documentary catches up with some of the women who participated in the show, which deemed them “ugly ducklings” and subjected them to cosmetic surgery and other alterations before displaying the results in a pageant-style contest to decide who’d become the loveliest “swan.” What could possibly be wrong with that?
