This musical satire of reality TV is about a show in the Pop Idol mould, but for female contestants vying for a charitable cause of their choice rather than a singing contract. It has mashed-up shades of Miss World – except this is a feminist version of that contest, sending up and railing against women’s place in TV culture and in life.
The competition is down to five finalists – including Mia, who has bumped her head just before going on air. Her concussed state leads her to speak and sing in unfiltered ways about the hypocrisies of reality TV and its cynical gender politics. When she performs her first, punkish protest to a live studio audience with the song Fuck This Show, her popularity rockets and producers begins using this to their advantage.
