While flipping through channels recently, I couldn’t help but notice the ever growing number of so called reality TV shows. Everywhere you look these days, there is yet another and another. My question is whose reality it is suppose to be? I think the flaw in these shows is that the reality is based on the show business version of reality and not what the every day ordinary person’s reality is. Are the writers all out of ideas to entertain us that they have to try to find a new reality for us? What does that say about all of us who watch?
I don’t know about you, but my personal reality has nothing to do with competing for a million dollar check. I don’t know anyone who ever won a house or a bunch of money or a girlfriend. In my world it doesn’t work that way. In whose world does it? I‘ve heard that everyone is entitled to their fifteen minutes of fame but this is ridiculous. I get the “All the world is a stage and all the men and women merely players” routine. (1) These new reality TV shows feature everything from disasters in meeting your girlfriend’s parents to competing to be the last person on an island to choosing between love and money. All of these shows offer a twist of
So how popular could a show like that be? So popular in fact, that the final episode made the morning news and thats how I heard about Erin in the first place. The Channel 10 News trailer said, “Find out what Erin’s decision was”, and I thought who the hell is Erin? I watched the news and found out. Then I had to ask myself why the news broadcast felt they had to include that information in their newscast, was the outcome of her decision going to push our economy up or send us to war? So then it must be some big deal or else why put it on the news. The pop culture created by television is so dominating a force in our society that it stretches into our own reality and then becomes part of our own existence. Sad isn’t it.
Next thing you know, the TV execs will air all the out takes from all these reality shows and then the writers won’t have to think of plots at all. Again I ask you, what kind of reality is that? Like Ms. O’Neill says “Life isn’t edited.” (3) What ever happened to the good old TV days of Dallas when the big twist was who shot JR?
The TV show for love or money is about a guy who is given a bunch of beautiful girl to choose from. He narrows the pick down to one lucky girl. What the poor guy doesn’t know is that all the women involved are competing
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