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Article: Bang, Bang, Bling, Bling, Blah, Blah; No Fun in the Sun On This 'South Beach'
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- January 11, 2006
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"Nothing from nothing leaves nothing," Billy Preston sang long
ago. Tonight, the puny UPN network inadvertently proves that nothing
plus nothing can add up to less than nothing -- Exhibit A being the
vacuous "South Beach," a preposterous and pretentious drama series
set in what one character calls the "alternate pastel universe" of
modern Miami.
In addition to being the sum of two zeros, "South Beach" is an
attempt to combine "Miami Vice" with "Baywatch," offering viewers
pleasing sights of the shore -- most of them nubile nymphs in teeny
bikinis -- plus the occasional gun battle or fistfight. It's the