My feeling for reality TV isn't ironic, guilty, or apologetic. Reality TV is one of the few remaining modes of popular entertainment in which characterization is permitted as plot.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Reality shows are all the rage on TV at the moment, but that's not reality, it's just another aesthetic form of fiction.
Reality TV is sleazy, it is manipulative. It is as momentary as anything in popular culture.
I believe that reality TV should be called 'not reality' TV; it's fiction.
Reality shows serve up juicy drama out of human shortcomings.
I don't want to be one of those 'hour' guys who is all bitter about reality TV. It's as viable as any other genre - when it's great, it's great. However! Reality does a certain thing. It burns quickly, brightly, and then it burns out. You can't repeat them.
There was a time when idealistic folksingers such as myself believed that Reality TV was a programming vogue that would peak and recede, leaving only its hardiest show-offs. Instead, it has metastasized like toxic mold, filling every nook and opening new crannies.
Whenever the subject of doing reality television comes up, I immediately disregard it, because most people don't come off well, and it's embarrassing.
For me, I feel like reality TV is anything but these days.
I think that reality TV is so bad. It is a tool by the media to not make people think.
Reality TV is anything but.