Reality bites
There have been so many horrid shows over the years, it's hard to make a short list. One that immediately comes to mind is American Idol. As far as I'm concerned this program is one of the most overhyped, overblown, and overrated shows ever to hit the airwaves. I tried watching it when it first aired but I just couldn't stand anything about it. Then there's The Bachelorette, which pretty much proved that all the polls saying that looks aren't important are lying. What a hurtful joke that show was. And let's not forget Who Wants To Marry A Multimillionaire?, which I can only describe as either a slave auction or a meat market, oh my stars it was awful. Thankfully it aired only once. Too bad the same can't be said for The Simple Life. The first season wasn't too bad, if one enjoys watching brain-dead debutantes adjusting to life on a farm where people do actual work, but it was all downhill from there. Same story for The Real Gilligan's Island; started out sort of interesting, ended up sucking. Finally, there's Survivor. They can call it, and all of the above, a "reality" show all they want, it has about as much to do with reality as Foster's and far, far less entertainment value. You want to impress me with survival skills? Give each contestant a bagged lunch, twenty bucks, and a flashlight, then drop them in the middle of Baghdad. First one to find an army base wins.
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