What a glorious thing we thought reality tv was. The early Real World and Survivor blew us away. They were great! Look at these real people making fools of themselves! What voyeurs we are. It was awesome.
Now, however, there isn’t much to choose from BESIDES reality tv show. Survivor, The Real World, The Hills (barely), Trading Spouses, Big Brother, L.A. Ink, Miami Ink, The Bachelor, Joe Millionaire, America/ Austrailia/ Canada /Britain’s Next Top Models, Biggest Loser, etc. etc. These are supposed to be ‘real’ people given opportunities to win money, fame, a title, weight, etc. But the more reality show dribble that is being produced, the less real it is! And even if it was real, we don’t care anymore!
Instead of real people being on tv, it’s now aspiring actors and celebrity-esque competitors. Everyone is on to how ‘alliances’ work, and there is always some kind of shocking scandal- what a surprise that a girl on Top Model has an eating disorder, or that some asshole on Biggest Loser drank 40 gallons of water to throw the vote, or someone passes out or gets slapped, whatever. How many times can we watch the same thing happen?
It was cool the first time a Survivor contestant got naked, it was shocking when the guy on the Real World slapped the girl with Lupus back in ‘98, and we all loved the religious rant of that creepy lady on wife swap, but attention television networks: Just because we liked it the first time doesn’t mean you have to do it for every fucking show.
And as far as this Hollywood writer’s strike- GOOD! You guys suck too! Maybe if you wrote something good we wouldn’t be forced to turn to the “unpredictable” antics of reality television. I’m sorry but everyone needs to get their own personal reality check and stop encouraging this crap. I say spread the fires towards Hollywood and lets rebuild from scratch. I demand some quality programming. I want to see a sitcom that strays from the same 5 plots writers have been using since TGIF fifteen years ago. And I don’t want to hear about fat people losing weight, slutty people being slutty, fanatical people being psycho, and models passing out from eating nothing but apple seeds for two weeks.
Heroes sucks, 24 sucks, Grey’s Anatomy SUCKS, every thing on television sucks. Everything. I don’t even want cable because that sucks too. And maybe you’re saying “well why don’t you write a show if you don’t like the selection?” Because I am not a television writer, and if I wrote television shows they would all be about smoking weed and complaining about television- and I have to common sense to know that people don’t want to watch that.
Back to my original topic- I didn’t intend to touch on regular television shows- but back to Reality Television. Stop it. Just stop. How many more $100,000 prizes can we give out? How long until we run out of fat people to go on Biggest Loser or people who want a phoenix tattooed on their arm by Kat Von Slut? How many more islands are left to film Survivor on and how long until the people on Trading Spouses realize that the person who comes into their home is going to make them live differently than they’re used to- that is the point. And how many more seasons of the Real World can we stomach? I went to college, and it was the same fucking thing, alcoholic sluts throwing things at each other.
