โปสเตอร์ The Swan (2004)

The Swan (2004)

รายการวาไรตี้ซีรี่ย์ 2004เรียลลิตี้

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The Swan
ประเทศ
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ออกอากาศครั้งแรก
7 เมษายน 2547
จำนวนตอน
21 ตอน (2 ซีซัน)
ความยาวต่อตอน
ประมาณ 60 นาที
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EP9/11 (20 ธันวาคม 2547)
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FOX

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The Swan is a 2004 American reality television program broadcast on Fox in which women who were judged to be ugly were given "extreme makeovers" that included several forms of plastic surgery. The title of the series refers to the fairy tale The Ugly Duckling, in which a homely bird matures into a swan.

Each contestant was assigned a panel of specialists – a coach, therapist, trainer, cosmetic surgeons, and a dentist – who together designed a program of total transformation. The contestants' work ethic, growth, and achievement was monitored over the course of three months. Each week, two women were featured, and at the episode's conclusion, one went home while another was selected to move to compete in the Swan pageant at the end of the season for a chance to be deemed The Swan.

The first two seasons both aired in 2004. A third season was tipped to happen, but the show was cancelled in early 2005 after ratings continued to drop.

The plastic surgeons on the team were chosen for their ability to perform often startling transformations. Drs. Terry Dubrow and Randal Haworth, both board certified by the American Board of Plastic Surgery, were selected by the producers of the show to perform the multiple plastic surgical operations for each of the two aired seasons.

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นักแสดง The Swan

  • Amanda ByramAmanda Byram
  • Nely Galán
  • Susie CastilloSusie Castilloรับบท Self - Judge

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เจาะลึก The Swan: เนื้อเรื่อง การสร้าง และเสียงวิจารณ์

The Swan is an American reality television series broadcast by the Fox Broadcasting Company (Fox). It premiered on April 7, 2004, while its eighteenth and final episode aired on December 20, 2004. The series was hosted by Irish television presenter Amanda Byram.

The Swan has garnered negative reception from critics and audiences. Criticism of the series often focused on the promotion of a negative body image for women. Despite the negative reception, The Swan premiered to high ratings and averaged around 9 million viewers over the course of its first season. Since its conclusion, most contestants have voiced satisfaction with their participation in the series. According to producers, the show's purpose was to increase the self-esteem of its contestants. In 2013, Fox announced plans to revive the series as a two-hour television special titled Celebrity Swan, but as of 2018 it was no longer in development.

Its title refers to the classic Danish fairy tale from 1843 called The Ugly Duckling where a homely bird matures into a swan (or in this case, a cygnet).

Premise

Each episode of the series followed two self-proclaimed "ugly ducklings" who, over the course of a three-month period, experienced an extreme makeover from a team that included a personal trainer, therapist, dentist, and cosmetic surgeons. Whichever woman was deemed more attractive at the end of the three months would move forward to compete in a beauty pageant held at the end of the season. Following the pageant, whichever contestant received the most votes for the greatest transformation would be given the title "The Swan".

Production

In 2005, Rebecca Hertz, a writer of the series, admitted that the series' staff manufactured dialogue and situations throughout the editing process. Hertz claimed that she falsely made it appear as though contestant Rachel Love-Fraser's husband was unhappily married to her, stating, "In a pre-interview, I led her husband to say Rachel looks average, but he thought she looked beautiful. I cut it down to him saying she looks average, so he sounded like a mean, horrible a–hole. He was furious when he saw the show".

Season 1 (2004)

The Swan debuted on April 7, 2004.

Through to the pageant

Wildcard

Contestant Tanya dropped out of the show (on her own accord) after being caught with a mirror (which is against the rules of appearing on the series), so Merline was automatically in the swan pageant. Though other contestants claim the real reason for her "dismissal" was due to Slovich requiring hospitalization.

Swan pageant

At the show the judges would score in every category with the swan contestants competing, eventually being whittled down to three finalists. The judges at the show were:

Susie Castillo – Miss USA 2003

Valerie Trott – model management executive

Judith Regan – publisher of several self-help books

Tara Kraft – beauty director of Star magazine

Mike Ruiz – fashion photographer

The winner received a modeling contract, and various premiums by corporate sponsors.

Final competition scores

After 9 episodes and 16 makeovers it was announced that Rachel Love-Fraser had won the swan pageant. Beth placed runner-up, with Cindy second runner-up.

Season 2 (2004)

Season 2 debuted on October 27, 2004. Kari and Gina Bravata from episode 4 are sisters.

Through to the pageant

Wildcard

Swan pageant

At the show the judges scored the swan contestants in several categories, whittling them down to three finalists. The judges at the show were:

Ken Baker – West Coast Executive Editor of US Weekly magazine

Crista Sides-Klayman – LA Models Management

Carnie Wilson – Wilson Phillips singer, actor, author

Larry A. Thompson – producer, author

Dayanara Torres – Miss Universe 1993

The winner was awarded a contract as a spokesperson and various premiums by corporate sponsors.

Final competition scores

After 9 episodes and 16 makeovers it was announced that DeLisa Styles had won the swan pageant. Gina Bravata placed runner-up, with Erica second runner-up.

Television viewership and ratings

The series premiered to 15 million viewers.

Critical response

The series received a negative reception from television critics. Gillian Flynn of Entertainment Weekly claimed the series was "a misogynistic mix of TV's twin vices: commercialism and conformity." USA Today's Robert Bianco believed the series to be "[h]urtful and repellent even by reality's constantly plummeting standards," further describing it as an advertisement for plastic surgery. Variety's Brian Lowry similarly claimed that the series glorified plastic surgery; however, he praised its graphics and music. Gaby Wood of The Guardian criticized the series' premise, stating, "the winner on The Swan is the woman who is thought to have undergone the greatest 'overall transformation' — in other words, the one who appears least like her former self."

Journalist Jennifer Pozner, in her book Reality Bites Back, calls The Swan "the most sadistic reality series of the decade". Journalist Chris Hedges also criticized the show in his 2009 book Empire of Illusion, writing "The Swan's transparent message is that once these women have been surgically 'corrected' to resemble mainstream celebrity beauty as closely as possible, their problems will be solved". Feminist scholar Susan J. Douglas criticized the show in her book The Rise of Enlightened Sexism for its continuation of a negative female body image, claiming that the series showed "the narrow physical standards to which women are expected to conform, the sad degree to which women internalize these standards, the lengths needed to get there, and the impossibility for most of us to meet the bar without, well, taking a box cutter to our faces and bodies". Author Alice Marwick described the show as "body culture media", in which plastic surgery is framed as "a morally correct solution to personal problems".

Cultural impact

In 2013, second-season contestant Lorrie Arias spoke publicly about problems she attributed to her participation in The Swan, including unresolved surgery complications and mental health problems she says were exacerbated by her appearance on the program.

In 2010, Entertainment Weekly ranked the program the worst reality television show ever produced.

It was also the subject of the first episode of the 2024 VICE docuseries Dark Side of Reality TV.

In March 2025, it was announced Hulu was in production on a documentary revolving around the series directed by Erin Lee Carr.

On September 24, 2026, it has been announced that The Swan: Behind the Mirror would be released for Huluand Disney+on September 29, 2026.

Episode status

The series briefly ran on the now-defunct Fox Reality Channel.

Both seasons 1 and 2 episodes can be viewed on the Internet Archive.

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