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"It seems that Lindsay, the Lindsay Lohan reality show produced by Oprah Winfrey, is the guerrilla hit of my TV season. After giving the obligatory eyebrow-raise at the original announcement, I didn&amp;#x27;t pay attention to it until the trailer dropped on Friday&amp;amp;#8212;and, with its true docu-style and arresting sound bites, made me take notice. The show premiered last night, and (as is befitting of O) it&amp;#x27;s basically a master class in reality television. Lindsay is shot like a more sophisticated True Life&amp;amp;#8212;we get background when we need it, stats when they&amp;#x27;re powerful, and tons of private moments. Of course, none of that matters if you don&amp;#x27;t have the perfect subject&amp;amp;#8212;and as it turns out, Lohan is. She&amp;#x27;s seen every nook and cranny of the fame game, so she&amp;#x27;s not affected by the cameras. She&amp;#x27;s had her every mortifying moment dragged into the public eye, so she&amp;#x27;s completely unafraid of honesty. She&amp;#x27;s wary, funny, occasionally bitchy&amp;amp;#8212;basically, she reminds me a lot of the rest of us, especially in the sense that she gets up every day seemingly believing that it&amp;#x27;ll be a happy one. Sometimes her good mood is waylaid by the apartment process (been there) or the indefatigable paparazzi (that one, not so much&amp;amp;#8212;but I don&amp;#x27;t envy her), but it&amp;#x27;s the way she starts each day that&amp;#x27;s so relatable. (And if we&amp;#x27;re trying to gauge her overall positivity: Lohan spends much of episode one calmly editing a storage-unit haul that would have reduced me to a sobbing, chocolate-smeared, arson-considering mess.) But the real magic of this show is in its timing. Like most reality subjects, Lohan indicates at the top of the show that she&amp;#x27;d like to help people in some way by exposing her journey. Unlike most reality subjects, she&amp;#x27;s not bulls&amp;amp;#8212;ting. The whole &amp;quot;if I can even make one person _____&amp;quot; trope has been worn out by housewives and D-listers who, deep down, just want to be on TV. Lohan&amp;#x27;s position is different. A teaser for the season ahead hinted at the sort of troubles we&amp;#x27;ve come to think of as characteristic for her&amp;amp;#8212;flaking on shoots, etc.&amp;amp;#8212;but the actress&amp;#x27;s power, in this series, doesn&amp;#x27;t hinge on her behavior record or even her intentions. The fact is: She&amp;#x27;s in a fragile place, as a young woman and as an addict, having seen a hell of a lot and needing to decide how to move on. How do you build a stable future when your past was all high glitter and major stumbles? How do you get excited about what&amp;#x27;s ahead when your former definition of excitement&amp;amp;#8212;both the substances and the circumstances that led to them&amp;amp;#8212;is now off-limits, by your own choice? That&amp;#x27;s the question this series seems to be setting out to answer&amp;amp;#8212;and it&amp;#x27;s one addicts and nonaddicts alike can empathize with. The great thing about having Lohan in the question is we really care what happens to her. Not all of us (as I&amp;#x27;m sure someone&amp;#x27;s gonna tell me in the comments!)&amp;amp;#8212;but millions of us, in a way that can&amp;#x27;t quite be explained, except to say that maybe some people are born to be rooted for. Lohan is one of those people. If she&amp;#x27;s been dealt a mixed hand in life, that is her ace. Lindsay gives us a chance to watch as she plays her next card&amp;amp;#8212;and it knows we all want her to nail it."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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