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Reality shows.... how about unreality shows. How about mind numbing, intelligence sapping excuses for entertainment... How about they take the shows off TV and but something on I can watch without wanting to throttle myself to death.....
The explosion (oh please let there be a real explosion) of reality shows has undoubtedly been a boon to the commercial channels. They are cheap, and in the case of Big Brother, you can get hours of television of the week. The TV watching public has grabbed this reality with both hands and therefore has forgotten to keep a free hand available for the remote..... to turn this skull-fucking trash off.
#1, it is not reality. None of them are. I don't know about any of you, but I have never moved in with complete strangers, where there is no food or furniture and had to play party games to get life's essentials. I haven't gone into the outback (or some other 'dangerous' location) and played games with complete strangers... This reality shows are game shows, pure and simple.... sure the actually winner takes a shitload longer to be found than say Sale of the Century, but they are still game shows.
All game shows require some type skill, what do these ones need? The skill to live... oh for fuck's sake there are a few billion people who do that.... Is the ultimate reality show, one where you put people in a house and see who dies last?
Now you are probably saying, "Decays off again..... how about 'The Osbournes'? That isn't a game show...", now I will give you that.... as long as you don't follow it up with "...its a social experiment... there are no prizes etc..." because if you said that I would slap you hard, not quite as hard as I would have liked to slap that bitch in the hardware store Foster (that is another story). Would Ozzy's daughter have got a song played around the world without the "social experiment"? I don't think so.... she is hardly a decent singer... and even with the celebrity factor of having a loon as a dad would have got her that far. The Osbournes (and well before them in australia, Sylvania Waters) are there to make people feel better about there own lives. People watch them, see these fucked up people and think "I'm better than them, my family isn't like that.... oh look they are so dysfunctional.... hahahaha", while ignoring the fact that all families can be fucked up at times.... we all have shouting matches, we all have times when someone has done something amazingly stupid.... and that is life....
accept no substitutes.....
... and the point? I want some decent shows on telly.... with the weather being shit and droidy studying... I want some television to watch that isn't the literary equivalent of "New Idea"...
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