Is this reality?
Aug. 29th, 2002 03:48 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
payne_n_diazOkay, this is the third and probably last entry for the day...
I was reading the newspaper this afternoon, one must keep up on the issues that plague our society, and I read that CBS is planning on produucing a reality television show based on the Beverly Hillbillies. They plan on bringing some rural clan to Beverly Hills for a year and tape their lives for entertainment purposes, with visits from their relatives interspersed here and there to liven things up. What?! Have we sunk so low that we no longer have anything better to watch on TV than inbred Jed and his toothless granny making moonshine in the bathroom? (Television is another topic in itself - people should read books more often!)
I mean, this whole reality TV thing is getting absurd in it's attempt to shock us, or draw us into some pathetic lifeforms sorry existence. I'm sorry to tell CBS this, but the Beverly Hillbillies Reality TV show is already on the air! (I'm talking about you Anna Nicole) Let's face it, Jerry Springer will forever give the inbred and stupid an outlet for their problems, since they can't seem afford therapy or cease boinking their own siblings, but I am getting bored with reality tv.
I watched the first three or four Real Worlds. New York was the best cast of all, but as I got older I noticed I didn't connect with the cast anymore (starting in Florida if I recall)... Yeah, the first Survivor was fine - we talked about it around the water cooler and we all hated the naked fat gay guy and wished it had been us who had won a million bucks. Big Brother sucked and that's when I really started to avoid the reality genre. I have peeked in on Ozzy and the family, and I think he's a good Public Service Announcement for drug avoidence seeing as how he can't speak a clear sentence or sit in a chair without falling backwards. But really, aren't we taking it to a new level when producers think we want to watch stupid genetic throwbacks watching a jacuzzi bubble and think maybe it's to cook your fresh road kill in?
I'd like to think America was more intelligent than than, but I doubt television producers would agree with me.
I was reading the newspaper this afternoon, one must keep up on the issues that plague our society, and I read that CBS is planning on produucing a reality television show based on the Beverly Hillbillies. They plan on bringing some rural clan to Beverly Hills for a year and tape their lives for entertainment purposes, with visits from their relatives interspersed here and there to liven things up. What?! Have we sunk so low that we no longer have anything better to watch on TV than inbred Jed and his toothless granny making moonshine in the bathroom? (Television is another topic in itself - people should read books more often!)
I mean, this whole reality TV thing is getting absurd in it's attempt to shock us, or draw us into some pathetic lifeforms sorry existence. I'm sorry to tell CBS this, but the Beverly Hillbillies Reality TV show is already on the air! (I'm talking about you Anna Nicole) Let's face it, Jerry Springer will forever give the inbred and stupid an outlet for their problems, since they can't seem afford therapy or cease boinking their own siblings, but I am getting bored with reality tv.
I watched the first three or four Real Worlds. New York was the best cast of all, but as I got older I noticed I didn't connect with the cast anymore (starting in Florida if I recall)... Yeah, the first Survivor was fine - we talked about it around the water cooler and we all hated the naked fat gay guy and wished it had been us who had won a million bucks. Big Brother sucked and that's when I really started to avoid the reality genre. I have peeked in on Ozzy and the family, and I think he's a good Public Service Announcement for drug avoidence seeing as how he can't speak a clear sentence or sit in a chair without falling backwards. But really, aren't we taking it to a new level when producers think we want to watch stupid genetic throwbacks watching a jacuzzi bubble and think maybe it's to cook your fresh road kill in?
I'd like to think America was more intelligent than than, but I doubt television producers would agree with me.
