Kid Nation

It's seems sort of semi-tragic to put a bunch of kids in a town with the hopes of doing something that adults couldn't do, but not because they won't be able to succeed where adults have failed. They seem like a plucky bunch who probably won't back down easily. No, the tragedy is that they believe they can come to some sort of consensus better than adults can. It is a grand experiment, but an experiment that will ultimately fail, simply because the hand of adults is so firmly in it. Maybe if they had a year, the kids could come up with some sort of system of working that would be better. But just like other reality shows, they are divided into teams, given some sort of hierarchy and given meaningless tests (the "fill the bottles with water" challenge while in some ways useful - the kids learned to rely on each other and work together- but isn't because it doesn't accomplish anything else) to determine where they work and what "class" of people they were for that week. Yet it is this very reason that the show is interesting. Watching kids come to adult realizations and watching kids just be kids. It is a very big social experiment done by someone whom I'm not really sure cares that the kids get something out of it.