Some Reality
Ever since the reality TV phenomenon has taken over the world of television, slouching on the couch with a tub of ice-cream has become a torture.
6 days a week, except on Saturdays, couch potatoes get to watch
America’s Next Top Model,
Who Wants To Marry My Dad?,
The Swan,
The Apprentice,
Survivor and The Bachelorette on MediaCorp’s Channel 5.
With the exception of the classic Survivor, the rest of the reality shows are getting increasingly ridiculous.
While they claim to be the real deal, sometimes one can’t help but wonder just how genuine these programmes are. For all we know, they’re just like any other feature movie, with scriptwriters, directors and actors to play their roles and deliver their lines.
Of the lot, The Bachelor (and The Bachelorette) could top the list of the worst-ever reality TV show. The game revolves around an eligible bachelor and about 2 dozens of hopefuls who try to win by making him choose them as the final one. Every episode, the Bachelor spends time with all the ladies and at the end of it, he eliminates one contestant. The next episode he eliminates some more until there’s only 1 left. What’s appalling about the idea of the game is that while the Bachelor gets intimate with almost every one of the ladies, they seem okay with the idea that he’s saying the same lines and doing the same things with say, another 8 girls. And these contestants even think that they have something special going on with the Bachelor. It makes them look so pathetic.
That aside, reality TV shows bring out the flaws in human nature. Most people love watching America’s Next Top Model for clips of the models fighting and being bitchy to one another. If it’s not sensational, the ratings drop. Gone are the days when people on TV say polite things to one another. Does this not bring to mind the way people watch cockfights?
This is indeed a remarkable chapter of human evolution. Since we now have reality TV shows about people hiring interns, children seeking new spouses for their middle-aged parents, who knows, in future if a family needs to hire a maid, there’ll be an entire TV programme just on their search for the perfect domestic helper.
Then again, if she gets the prize money (meaning it’s not all levied away), she might just decide she doesn’t want the job after all.
::Amanda Liang::
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# posted by theurbanwire @ 12:47 PM
