Getting to know their attitude

With any reality TV show we watch, the first thing we do is analyze the person we are watching. As a matter of fact that's what you do a majority of the time. But then how do we get to know these people to the point that we are saying "Oh my god, she is going to be so angry at him for doing that behind her back, she's gonna be so jealous and probably flip out, this is gonna get good!" The whole time we are trying to judge what the next situation will be like based on what we think we know about a person's lifestyle and attitude. To make the audience connect quickly with the characters/actors/people the creators give a sense of a person's stream of consciousness in a situation by using later interviews to spark full fledged narrations from each person's perspective. As footage of a person walking away from an argument plays, it's cut with the voice over of the later interview where she states "I just get so frustrated when people are too hard headed and won't listen to what you have to say." When a viewer turns on the TV and sees a person walking away looking frustrated (like we all have been before) and hear their voice, it reminds us of how we are typically thinking "Why are they so hard headed" as we walk away from our frustrations. We instantly connect to the material because it provides the internal, and external point of view that we all live in. The editing creates the full illusion of us understanding the person's stream of consciousness in that exact situation, making viewers believe we can accurately predict (and sometimes do) how a person will react to, and carry out situations. We get enthralled in seeing what will actually happen to these characters because we feel we know something about how that character lives and acts.