Growing up I enjoyed typical kid
channels like, Nickelodeon and Disney. But as I entered middle school, I began
to watch reality TV shows. My favorite was Real World on MTV, but I knew that
people didn’t really act like that. I’ve always thought reality TV shows are
scripted because who honestly acts so crude and immature like that in real
life.
Although I can say for the past few
years my favorite reality TV show has been Bad Girls’ Club on Oxygen. These
girls claim to be the “baddest girls where they come from”. The show constantly
consists of the girls fighting and arguing with each other. But when it gets
too hectic and a girl needs to be sent home, a replacement is sent for her. The
“originals,” the girls that are there from the beginning, will haze the
replacement to see if she can handle it. The girls also usually form cliques,
but they tend to change depending on the drama going on.
Personally, I believe that reality
TV shows aren’t bad because they are there to keep people entertained not
influence them. If a person becomes influenced by the television show that they
are watching, then I believe that they are not mature enough to be watching
that show. While watching Bad Girls’ club or other reality TV shows, I constantly
find myself saying,” If my daughter or kid ever acts like that…” because I
understand and believe that reality TV shows are purely for entertainment.
I think we each all thought reality T.V. was scripted like a daytime drama at one point in our television watching days. However, were now seeing more and more unbelievable and ridiculous moments of self destruction with people. These no name actors can “not” be that great of actors to pull that great of performances off faking it. So this leaves me to ultimately believe that reality T.V. is at least 90% mostly realistic. Leaving us with that feeling of we can’t get enough of the entertainment right? I like your maturity statement if you’re influenced to act like the person on the show that you shouldn’t be viewing it. Great post!
ReplyDeleteIt sucks because some reaality shows can be so good. Then you think about it and yeah most of them are scripted. Some act way to crazy and have no morals.
ReplyDeletebad girls club on oxygen is crazy, too bad they took out a couple of shows that no other network has!
ReplyDeleteI definitely agree with you last paragraph!
ReplyDeleteSo true! I also thought they were scripted too! There's no way they can be so dumb to do all that stuff.
ReplyDeletei too enjoyed watching many of those nickelodeon cartoons and i agree that they don't make us who we are.
ReplyDeleteWhen i was a little girl i also liked watching nickelodian.
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