Comments on: Do you watch Reality TV?

By: Bruce

Bruce — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 14:19:43 +0000

Cynthia, I find your point if view familar with my own.

Can’t do reality tv. Back in the day there was something inside me that was intriegued by the original Real World season. But that went away in short order. The voyeur in me doesn’t manifest itself around Big Brother’s running video but in other ways, I’m sure. Saw ten minutes of Survivor once, but I don’t watch people eat bugs. Can’t watch Nicole and Paris act like idiots. No other reality series interest me enough to be familiar with their names.

The writer’s strike about did me in as well. Luckily television’s only true reality offering, live sports is omnipresent on the tv dial.

Differnet strokes for different folks, I’m a “whodunit” man. Without a Trace, Cold Case, The Closer, all the Law & Order series, but curiously enough never have seen any CSI, don’t know why, really. Maybe I’m missing somethng there?

Changes in my life recently have tempered my laughter. I rely on the old standbys via TV Land and Seinfield to fill my rare situatuon comedy fix.

I guess I prefer real tv (series) not reality tv ones.

By: Allie

Allie — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 06:44:19 +0000

Um, no. I once watched Paris and Nicole just so I could see what everyone else was talking about, and it made me sick to my stomach. These days just reading what the show is supposed to be about makes me sick, I don’t even have to watch. Sickest so far: The Swan.

I’m not sure contests where the contestants have some identifiable talent other than sheer cussedness should count as reality shows – after all, The Gong Show was never called a reality show.

By: Cynthia

Cynthia — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 22:30:15 +0000

I can almost sit through “The Amazing Race”,but have otherwise never watched a full episode of any reality show. I tried to watch “Survivor” but didn’t like the pettiness & backstabbing because there is enough of that in my reality. The writer’s strike nearly killed me because I was left with only reruns of my fave shows or reality TV.

By: Emily

Emily — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 15:42:35 +0000

I am a bonafide lover of reality TV, and it’s in no way a “secret” or “guilty pleasure.” I love everything from CBS’s Big Brother to E!’s Girls Next Door and Keeping Up With the Kardashians. I do not, for one second, think it’s all “reality,” however. Most conversations are obvioulsly scripted, which I’m OK with. TV is TV. I watch it just for fun, but (fortunately) am able to draw that thick line between “reality TV” and actual reality!