Reality Shows Are The Pits

[jazzy_dave]

I know reality shows suck and are the pits - this is the lowest of the low.

Britain’s Hardest Workers: the most gobsmacking reality TV show to date
In what is surely the nadir of the already exploitative genre of elimination TV, the BBC has reduced minimum-wage jobseekers to the status of spectacle.

https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2016/aug/22/britains-hardest-workers-the-most-gobsmacking-reality-tv-show-to-date?CMP=fb_gu

Comments

[msstacy13.livejournal.com]

Yep.
Reality TV is the worst of both,
and consistently demonstrates there is no depth to which it cannot sink.

[a-phoenixdragon.livejournal.com]

WTF. I already hated reality shows. Now that hate has become more venomous...

*HUGS*

[thespian15.livejournal.com]

UGH UGH UGH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Hugs, Jon

[ladyblue56.livejournal.com]

And I thought reality TV couldn't be worse than using ppl's mental* problems and substance abuse as entertainment. 0_o

* Hoarders and Dr Drew

reality shows

[pigshitpoet.livejournal.com]

i thought the trump runner, millionaires gone wild was the craziest reality show to date...

; )

[nerthus.livejournal.com]

Reminds me of a couple of reality shows here in America that made my blood boil; one was this show where very wealthy people would be given a tiny stipend of money and set down in the middle of some blighted ghetto somewhere in an American city and left to wander the streets looking for worthy 'causes' to volunteer for and then at the end of the time period the wealthy person would 'come clean' to the organizations/people he or she picked to donate to and would give those organizations or individuals money. They had to give away at least $100,000 divided between 3 organizations or people they chose however they wanted to divide it; some person might get $20k and maybe a soup kitchen might get $40k, whatever the rich person wanted to give. But I found it offensive because the show would start with showing the wealthy person's gated enclave or mansion or seaside villa or whatever and show them giving up their fancy clothes and cars and donning Goodwill used clothes and having to live in bug-infested apartments or whatever, and even if they did make a few people's lives better I just thought it was just so much exploitation of the poor. The only good thing was maybe shining a light on a few helpful organizations that might have spurred people to donate later on once the rich person went back to his or hew cushy life.

The other show that irked me was in the same vein, some mega-wealthy CEO of a corporation would 'go undercover' at one of his company's restaurants or stores or offices and pretend to just be another worker and under the guise of just being one of the guys ask probing questions about what the workers thought of the company and its CEO, etc. Then this CEO would cry crocodile tears about how he or she just didn't REALIZE how hard the average peon worker has it today trying to work for his or her company and make ends meet on a regular or even lower salary, shock. The CEO would make thoughtful noises about some of the complaints or suggestions made by his clueless employees who didn't recognize that they were talking to the big cheese of the company himself/herself and then the CEO would pick one or two 'star' or 'deserving' employees and do something nice for them or give them a promotion or raise or whatever. Well, great, but what about the thousands of other employees in your stupid company who are just as needy or deserving; why not change your policies and pay rates for ALL of them instead of just the few you picked to make yourself feel better and to show the world what a great, caring, still rich as shit CEO you are? It made me sick, how these CEOs would do the big reveal to the employees they'd worked alongside anonymously and you'd see the deer in the headlights looks as these poor sobs tried to remember if they'd said anything damning or termination worthy to their CEO, then the CEO would take off his 'regular guy' work clothes and hop back into his private jet or helicopter and go back to his extravagant life. I watched a couple episodes of each of these shows just to give a halfway fair assessment of whether I really felt these shows gave a damn about poor people and how they were exploiting them for what might loosely be termed 'entertainment' or social enrichment, and I couldn't watch any more; it just made me so angry for the people who DO live in ghettos and violent urban settings or in mobile homes with second hand cars they have to nurse along and people who do have to get their clothes and dishes and furnishings, etc from Goodwill or Salvation Army; so disrespectful to those people and how dare they look down on any of them or pretend to empathize with their 'brave' struggles daily?

[maxauburn.livejournal.com]

I don't watch reality shows because they are so unreal.

;)

[sabotabby]

That is horrid.

How about Britain's Most Effective Guillotine Operators?