From left: Amanda, Dan, Mrs. Weiss (the staff adviser), Alex, Adam, Trevor, Giana, and Cassia, the staff members of the student newspaper The Circuit, are the stars of MTV's high school docu-reality series.
(Justin Borucki/MTV)
Critic's Notebook
Adolescence is story behind 'The Paper'
From left: Amanda, Dan, Mrs. Weiss (the staff adviser), Alex, Adam, Trevor, Giana, and Cassia, the staff members of the student newspaper The Circuit, are the stars of MTV's high school docu-reality series.
(Justin Borucki/MTV)
Docu-reality series are everywhere these days, but good ones - not just fun to gawk at, but dramatic on their own - are depressingly hard to come by. Most often, the characters are either unreal from the start, or far too real. They mug for the camera like so many "real housewives." They angle to make the most of mild ... (Full article: 750 words)
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