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Aug. 25th, 2021 10:34 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
roaming_kate23I hate to say it but I think reality TV is played out. Yes, when it started it was revolutionary. Shows like The Real World were appointment TV, you didn’t miss them,EVER. I would say *peak* Real World was the first through 6th seasons.After that it went rapidly downhill(the Back To New York and Seattle seasons were especially low points IMO.) It was bringing people from different background together and helping them understand each other. The flip side of that was Seattle, where a cast member slapped someone and the producers looked the other way .The person that did the slap..all they had to do was a couple of anger management class and that was it.And understandably, there was an uproar about it. And my opinion of The Real World changed after that. There was a nastier tinge to it, which carried through to other reality shows like Bad Girls’ Club which literally had a fist fight(or near fist fight) on every episode.
You know what else is divisive?The Real Housewives franchise.Apparently there are all sorts of rumours about casting, people being hired and fired and multiple shows being put on hiatus for an indeterminate amount of time.I find this really interesting.The reasons for hiring/firing are interesting(and this is a show that has had more than a few cast members who have gone to jail/prison-and most of them are still on the show.There also are cast members who have had public freak-outs(Anyone who watched it at the time it aired will not forget Scary Island anytime soon). Ignorant behaviour is not OK either.And that’s gotten more than a few people fired(and has become a recurring thing recently again with RHONY and Dallas.)
Sometimes I wonder why some people(even though they are peripheral to the show, RHONJ* comes right to mind) are on the show and even when they aren’t or they started out so and became a “friend of”(*cough* Danielle Staub *cough*) That was a mind fuck in and of itself. Teresa became friends with her after everything that happened?(of course it was too good to last.)
Then you have RHOBH**. Oh my god is that show ever a hot mess. I have to say that I am with some of the cast members who don’t want to be around Erika because it reflects badly on them. Guilt by association.And it just gets more and more insane and..nobody is at all surprised by it. I’ve already said that Erika KNOWS/KNEW what was going on. Gets tipped off every time.It’s called “damage control”..A little late for that if you ask me. There is a fine line between trying to save your OWN ass and being a cold hearted bitch(yes I get it she can’t speak on much right now but at least some sort of acknowledgment of the stuff that happened with her ex husband .Obliquely.)
*Real Housewives Of New Jersey
** Real Housewives Of Beverly Hills
You know what else is divisive?The Real Housewives franchise.Apparently there are all sorts of rumours about casting, people being hired and fired and multiple shows being put on hiatus for an indeterminate amount of time.I find this really interesting.The reasons for hiring/firing are interesting(and this is a show that has had more than a few cast members who have gone to jail/prison-and most of them are still on the show.There also are cast members who have had public freak-outs(Anyone who watched it at the time it aired will not forget Scary Island anytime soon). Ignorant behaviour is not OK either.And that’s gotten more than a few people fired(and has become a recurring thing recently again with RHONY and Dallas.)
Sometimes I wonder why some people(even though they are peripheral to the show, RHONJ* comes right to mind) are on the show and even when they aren’t or they started out so and became a “friend of”(*cough* Danielle Staub *cough*) That was a mind fuck in and of itself. Teresa became friends with her after everything that happened?(of course it was too good to last.)
Then you have RHOBH**. Oh my god is that show ever a hot mess. I have to say that I am with some of the cast members who don’t want to be around Erika because it reflects badly on them. Guilt by association.And it just gets more and more insane and..nobody is at all surprised by it. I’ve already said that Erika KNOWS/KNEW what was going on. Gets tipped off every time.It’s called “damage control”..A little late for that if you ask me. There is a fine line between trying to save your OWN ass and being a cold hearted bitch(yes I get it she can’t speak on much right now but at least some sort of acknowledgment of the stuff that happened with her ex husband .Obliquely.)
*Real Housewives Of New Jersey
** Real Housewives Of Beverly Hills
