Don't you just love how in soapies your husband could be your mother's ex husband or your sister could be a gay man that's inlove with your cousin.Soooo complicated yet we still watch it, probably to make us feel better about our own lives. Reality TV is just a spin-off of soapies and that's why its gotten so popular.
We love looking into other people's lives and talking about how utterly ridiculous they are when we're the ones watching them. Its gotten to the point where any celebrity could make a show about watching paint dry and it could be a hit!
I'm not a very big fan of reality TV, but i do tend to sometimes catch a glimpse of the series on TV. There's one called "Sweet Sixteen" where you watch spoilt, rich sixteen-year-olds get all the things their little hearts desire. Fast cars, big houses, bags, dresses and parties that cost as much as it would take to feed ten small countries for 5 years are the order of the day.
Superficial and ridiculous is what it is, now where's the remote so i can watch '7de Laan' and 'Run's House' afterwards.
Love your take on the Reality shows. Is it all not just an excuse to make a pile of money? Are the veiwing public so gullible that we absorb every morsel of reality TV detail? Often the characters come across as fake and the scenes are clearly planned and rehearsed - yet we are engrossed by what's playing out on telly. I think reality TV is much like 'die Son sien alles'
ReplyDeleteI never looked at it that way but you are so right.
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