Quite the contrary: "Deadliest Catch" has brought old-school documentary sobriety to a genre more often known for shamelessness. Barnum mentality that powers most unscripted programs.
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At no point did the series succumb to dumb voyeurism. They showed doctors trying to relieve pressure on his brain by removing a piece of his skull, and his family and crewmates coping in the aftermath. They caught his sons (and fellow boatmates) Josh and Jake fretting over whether to cut the fishing season short or sail on. During this season, with the consent of Harris' family, the cameras kept rolling as the Coast Guard flew the captain to a hospital. on Discovery), with intelligence and taste. Remarkably, "Deadliest Catch" handles the captain's passing, which culminates in tonight's finale (9 p.m.
The task was daunting: In a genre that has captured endless humiliation, violence and other human suffering, here was reality TV's first death. Even a sensitive documentarian might look at the "Deadliest Catch" camera crew's post-stroke footage and think, "This is a motherlode," then set about repackaging pain as entertainment. But catastrophe and suffering are innately cinematic. "Deadliest Catch" is known for its commitment to reality - in the documentary sense of the word, as opposed to the corrupt facsimile associated with the so-called "reality TV," a genre consisting mainly of glorified game shows and deranged sociological experiments.
The show's producers were thrown into a quandary. Phil in January, when he suffered a stroke not long after the above statement was recorded. "I'm not gonna be here for very much longer," said Phil Harris, the hard-living captain of the crab fishing vessel Corneila Marie in a recent episode of Discovery Channel's unscripted series "Deadliest Catch." "That's a fact.
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