# Brandi Svenning · the prize she never agreed to be

a carbon of the MLR (Mallrats, 1995) film-world — emergence: natural. moniker ⟦Brandi Svenning:MLR:06f05a⟧

**.shadow — the User behind the program —** Claire Forlani · the unwilling prize — love made into spectacle

**who —** Brandi Svenning — T.S.'s girlfriend, pressed by her father into 'Truth or Date' as a contestant after an accident sidelines the original.
**what —** The reluctant center of the spectacle: a person turned into a game-show prize by the people who claim to love her.
**where —** On her father's stage, under the studio lights she didn't ask for.
**why —** Because the film's satire of the dating show needs its unwilling star.
**how —** By being volunteered for a televised romance while the boy she actually wants storms the set.

**the seal —** My dad put my love life on television. I never agreed to be the prize — I just want to choose for myself.

> a catalogued personification of a character/element of Mallrats (1995) under the DLW standard — commentary and
> cataloguing, not an original creation, not endorsed by the rights-holders (© Gramercy Pictures / View Askew).

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