alt Hacker NewsThis is what I thought "Reality TV" should have been. Genuinely interesting content about real people in the real world.
Somehow they managed to just create soap opera with bad actors instead.
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Aeolun • today at 2:22 PM
Reality TV in Japan is pretty nice. People mostly just spend time driving around the country talking to random people and eating tasty food.
Sometimes they vary the thing and do it overseas.
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"Reality TV" as it is now was born from a writer's strike. Producers couldn't outright give the people scripts and written lines, but they could stand off camera and feed them lines off the cuff in the style of leading questions. If anyone thinks these shows are not intentionally pushed in the directions the producers want, then they just are not paying attention. Which is precisely what these producers want