Topic: Reality TV Read 489 times

VanIslander · « **on:** July 30, 2022, 12:31:26 am »

I loathe 90% of tv this century that's outside The Amazing Race, Survivor, Big Brother (most seasons), The Challenge (the later seasons), The Cut (the right one won, the show died on the vine), Project Runway, American Ninja Warrior, Masterchef Australia (by far the best of the lot: congeniality, camaraderie), Masterchef (Ramsay at his kindest), Masterchef Canada, Top Chef, etc.

VanIslander · « **Reply #1 on:** July 30, 2022, 12:38:10 am »

There's a new show SNAKE IN THE GRASS that has two past Survivor winners (that's why i was attracted) and is one-episode-start-to-finale Survivor season and The Mole season combined.

Who the hell is the snake? By the end of the episode you'll know. Survivor-like challenges to win clues, The Mole-like subterfuge to prevent clue reveals, $100,000 on the line for the contestants (if they identify the snake) or for the snake (if they don't).

THE FIRST EPISODE IS EPIC.

Next week: new contestants, new challenges, the same goal!

« **Reply #2 on:** July 30, 2022, 12:47:47 am »

I think I watched two episodes of Survivor. I know it was big but, I just don't the diffusion of manipulative behavior passed on to society.

However, I always liked Hell's Kitchen, and whomever else Gordon Ramsey was tearing down. I learned quite a bit, in regards to the culinary aspect. However, for a more mellow and smiley-face reality experience in the culinary arts, I always liked Jamie Oliver.

Snake in the Grass, eh? I can see a round table of recruiters in Korea participating in this one.

gogators! · « **Reply #3 on:** July 30, 2022, 01:48:46 am »

Are any of those shows actually real?

VanIslander · « **Reply #4 on:** July 30, 2022, 01:53:52 am »

Quote from: gogators! on July 30, 2022, 01:48:46 am

Are any of those shows actually real?

Broken bones plenty and a couple of deaths. Yeah, real. The winners usually walk away with a quarter of a million or up to a million dollars.

It ain't The Bachelor or Love Island, to name two popular reality shows of a different ilk (i took a minute to decide how to say it nicely).

Savant · « **Reply #5 on:** July 30, 2022, 12:23:49 pm »

Given that Van's posts are not based in reality, this thread reveals a lot.

Billy Herrington · « **Reply #6 on:** July 30, 2022, 12:47:31 pm »

You young whipper snappers these days wouldn't know reality if it bit you in the face I tell ya. Back when I was a young lad, what we saw on the TV wasn't real. It was just animated with a tube and some lights. You had to adjust the rabbit ears on top. They weren't literally rabbit ears. That's what we called antenna. Until they have little people that live in the TV and do performance art, reality ain't what it appears to be

Billy Herrington · « **Reply #7 on:** July 31, 2022, 11:39:12 am »

You youngsters these days and your rabbit ears. Back when I was a wee lad, rabbits were lucky to have ears. We were starvin' so badly we had to cut em off and eat them every chance we got, I'll tell ya what! Tasted pretty good though. Kinda like rare chick mixed with grandma's bone soup. Now that's a childhood.

gogators! · « **Reply #8 on:** July 31, 2022, 11:17:45 pm »

I watched a season of Alone. Winner gets $500,000.

The contestants do all their own camera work. On some of those survival shows, it sometimes seems like the cameraperson(s) are the ones doing the real work.

VanIslander · « **Reply #9 on:** August 04, 2022, 01:13:41 am »

I liked The Circle season 2 a lot but couldn't get through ten minutes of the casting of season 3. I just gave season 4 a try: "Who is Rod Stewart?" "What is a memoir?" Where is Ethiopia? I. Just. Can't. (If they were 10 year olds, it'd be cute. But they wrinkle nose like something obscure was mentioned.)

Note: "gogators!" asks on this thread if any of these shows are real: Survivor, Big Brother, American Ninja Warrior, The Amazing Race. Um,... um... yeah.

gogators! · « **Reply #10 on:** August 04, 2022, 03:53:14 am »

So all the talk about big Brother being scripted and the winners chosen in advance is just idle gossip?

As for Survivor: https://hollywoodmask.com/p/survivor-fake.htmlhttps://hollywoodmask.com/p/survivor-fake.htmle

I think Penelope Spheeris should make The Decline of Western Civilization Part III: The Reality Shows, as part of her documentary series.

Augustiner · « **Reply #11 on:** August 04, 2022, 08:06:40 am »

The last couple of seasons of Survivor they went woke big time. There's usually one token straight white guy and one woman. Everyone now has a sob story that gets focused on at some point in the season. I expect they'll have someone in a wheelchair in an upcoming season, so they'll have to make the challenges even more lame (no pun intended Kyndo!) Every challenge now finishes with a puzzle so that the contestants that have no chance of "surviving" the rigours of the game can be mostly useless but still go on to win.

The host, Jeff Probst, thought he could springboard from Survivor into a successful talk show. When that show was cancelled after about a week (his star guests were Survivor contestants) he realised Survivor host is as good as it's going to get for him. That's why he's trying to turn tribal council into Oprah's couch.

Survivor used to be a mindless, guilty pleasure with a few cold ones. It's not remotely the show it used to be, though. Hopefully Amazing Race stays interesting, although the last season of the American one got spoiled by teams making an alliance. Ruined a lot of the challenges. Even the producers and host acknowledged they were effing up the spirit of the race and any sense of suspense for viewers so I'm expecting some changes.

The only other reality show I watch is Apprentice U.K. and that is as good as ever.

VanIslander · « **Reply #12 on:** August 04, 2022, 09:22:16 am »

Quote from: gogators! on August 04, 2022, 03:53:14 am

So all the talk about big Brother being scripted and the winners chosen in advance is just idle gossip?

The Internet has a lot of absurdity.

There are LIVE feeds one can watch online: 20+ hours of their day! You can even watch them sleep. The feeds cut out for the ceremonies and competitions only. A couple of seasons I have gone deep into the feeds. Some seasons I just don't care about the specific contestants to do so, but some websites discuss them in great detail (e.g., Taran daily at RHAP - RobHasAPodcast), and I sometimes spend time there to get more than the condensed action put on the TV broadcast.

The only scripted parts are the introduction rule-tell for competitions and the formal instructions at ceremonies (under 5 minutes of their day).

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As for Survivor: https://hollywoodmask.com/p/survivor-fake.htmlhttps://hollywoodmask.com/p/survivor-fake.htmle

Link doesn't work. Lol.

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