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More “Nimrod Nation” — LA Times

Matthew L.M. Fletcher

From the L.A. Times:


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“Nimrod Nation,” which airs Nov. 26, tracks a season in the life of the Watersmeet Nimrods, a small-town basketball team in far-northern Michigan

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The Nimrod Chronicles

“Nimrod Nation,” which airs Nov. 26, tracks a season in the life of the Watersmeet Nimrods, a small-town basketball team in far-northern Michigan

Community — and small-town basketball — are the focus of a new reality series on the Sundance Channel.

By Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
November 26, 2007

Since the current writers strike was first bruited, the prospect of more reality TV has been held out to the public like a threat — coal in the stocking at Christmas, the boogeyman waiting in the closet. People watch a lot of reality TV as it is, but I suspect that even among its most ardent fans there are many who sense there is something not quite right about it, something not . . . real. It’s good for sensation and sentiment but not for anything resembling the dispassionately considered truth. Continue reading →

“Nimrod Nation” on Sundance Channel

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From the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette:

 

Tuned In: Not-so-simple life in ‘Nimrod Nation’

Sunday, November 25, 2007

By Rob Owen, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

 

At first, the new Sundance Channel documentary series “Nimrod Nation” (9 and 9:30 p.m. Monday) appears to be a light-hearted look at “how the other half lives,” the other half being the denizens of tiny Watersmeet, Mich. They sound like Canadians, eh, and the snow-covered frozen lakes look like the same tableau as in “Fargo.”

But any cuteness is erased by somewhat graphic scenes of a deer being skinned and a pig being shot in the head. Neither is gratuitous ; it’s just how these people live.

“I have a gun in my car, who doesn’t?” says one fresh-faced teenager. “It’s just the way we are. We love huntin’.” Continue reading →