Thursday, August 26, 2010
Reality Television
Being deprived of television for the last three months I can undoubtedly say t.v. is not a necessity I need in my life. Even back home before I started college I almost never watched t.v. and when I did it was almost always the last recorded episodes of Glee, The Big Bang Theory, Two and a Half Men, or sometimes even Cake Boss. Therefore, since I view television as a whole as thoroughly unimportant, I've always found reality t.v. shows to be especially insignificant. That said, my friends are completely entitled to their own opinion, and are completely obsessed with in my view the most pointless show on all of television: Jersey Shore. I enjoy reality shows like Cake Boss because they demonstrate creativity and new ideas, while I just can not seem to take anything substantial from a show like Jersey Shore, or for that matter anything on MTV. Not to mention the fact that all reality shows on MTV are basically set up. One of my best friends appeared on Teen Cribs last summer and they told her and her friends word for word what to say and how to act as they toured her house. This leaves me to question. . . Is it really even reality television we're actually watching?
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3 comments:
I agree with what you were saying about tv is not a neccesaity you can deffintly live happiely wih out it.
I barely watch Tv like you and i dont see the reason for all these reality shows. Two and a half men is a great show to watch just for comical relief. I understand what you said about how reality tv isnt so real. In room raiders, they plant the nasty clothes and dirty items around the room.
I never knew that people were told what to say in Reality TV shows. Thats pretty weird. Why would they call it that. I guess nothing on TV that's completely natural can be that interesting. After all, TV is all about drama and entertainment. Some people watch TV to get away from their routine life?
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