Sunny is Great

I LOVE reality shows. I watch(ed) Project Runway, America’s Next Top Model, American Idol, The Hills, Laguna Beach, Real World, Orange County, The Life of Ryan, The Paper, Search of the Next Elle Woods, America’s Best Dance Crew, and a Korean reality called 우리결혼했어요, meaning we got married. Most of the times, especially for the reality shows that try to show the lives of the characters, i realize that the show is very fake and it is simply unproductive, meaningless, shallow and useless to watch the shows, but i still watch them haha. Well, since i watch so many shows i definitely caught a pattern.

Shows need to get high viewing rates, and for this the shows need to be interesting, and to be interesting the producers try to make the shows more provocative, scandalous, and sexual. As a result, many of the reality shows change their colors as the seasons progress. However, i wonder whether these methods of making the reality so rich really help. This idea suddenly hit me while i was watching Project Runway on Youtube. I was reading some comments and one comment said that her or she used to enjoy watching the desingers work the most, but now those parts became so boring, and i completely agreed. I could not read the whole comment because i had to quickly focus on the show haha but i thought about it while watching, and i found the reason for the boringness. It was because a long time ago.. or even last season, for some of the episodes, the designers actually working were shown on tv. However, now the focus was is not on the designers’ hands but on their mouths. In order to pick up the drama the edited parts only showed the parts when the designers were gossiping, back stabbing, or swearing. This peculiar editting must have been done in order to make the show more interesting, but obviously, at least for me, the show was becoming less interesting.

It must be very hard for the producers to make their shows real and intersting at the same time. I feel like these days the focus is more on interesting than on real. I really wonder whether the excessive salting and peppering helped the view rates. When looking at the apparent trend, i guess it does. If the rates really did go up, i think this can translate into – people like disturbing and scadalous stuff……Since i am one of the viewers of these shows does this mean that i do like these elements as well??? I hope that the answer for this questions is yes judging from the fact that i did not like the extra drama from Project Runway and that i stopped watching Real World Hollywood because it was just too much.

So, i think that the conclusion of my post came out to be interesting = disturbing, but i wonder if this formula always works.

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