Where’s the reality in reality TV?? March 19, 2008

                                                  

what ever happened to day when you would turn the TV and when a show said reality….you would say well hey, this must be real. I miss those days but then i have to think…did these days ever exist? With all the shows out now its hard to distinguish between which ones have a script, and which ones don’t. For instance all of the vast amounts of Celebrity family shows, keeping up with the kardashians,snoop dogg father hood,runs house,hogan knows best, being bobby brown….the list goes on and on! Some shows are a little discreet with the fact that the people are either following a script while others are blatantly obvious that everyone in the house has voluntarily taken acting classes just for their show to look “authentic”. It never occurred to me that an authentic family sits around in high fashion jeans with heels and full hair and makeup done as they sat and watched tv( which by the way the TV convenietly happens to be on a channel that their reality show is on). Reality TV is really becoming ridiculous. Now the same goes with the dating reality shows like flavor of love, i love new york and the bachelor. All these shows couldn’t be more fake. They pick the people that make good TV, then one by one picking off the girls or guys that are obviously not liked by the picker, then the one that everyone knew from the beginning was going to win, wins  the show. It is so predictable but yet i cant look away from the TV. What draws us in to such nonsense, that fact that we think its real or the fact that is so ridiculous we know its not real but we like to believe it is? This is a question i love to ask myself. But since there isn’t anything else on TV I guess I’m stuck watching Reality TV