Reality television seems to be consuming our television networks. No matter what channel I seem to be watching, I always run across a reality program. More recently I have found myself watching and in fact becoming consumed with a few shows in reality TV land! The twist from regular reality TV shows is that these shows that I’ve grown so fond of are reality love shows! I end up becoming committed to these shows for two to three months before they finally end. Once they do end I wait another month to see the reunion show where all the people get together and usually argue about their experience on the show. Sometimes this is my favorite part of the entire experience! I know these shows are annoying, ridiculous, and predictable! However, I love them!!!
Most recently I have finished watching my favorite reality love show of all time…at least thus far! Real Chance of Love on VH1 finally ended this last Monday. Chance and Real are brothers who actually competed against each other in a previous reality love show on VH1 called I Love New York. Real is the nicer, more sensitive brother. Chance is very blunt and rough around the edges. Neither of them won the heart of New York... so of course they did what most previous reality TV stars do when they don’t win…they start their own show!
The two brothers each had their own set of girls on this show and narrowed it down to two girls in the end. Brother Chance didn’t find love! He sent both of his final girls home…I’m betting my car that he will be back on VH1 reality TV in no time! Brother Real did find love; he found love with a girl named Corn Fed. Ironically Corn Fed is from Fargo, North Dakota! This of course made the show that much better because I got to listen to the people on the show making silly remarks about North Dakota!
Now I sit, waiting for two weeks to pass until I can watch the reunion show for Real Chance of Love! My point in blogging about all of this is to make it evident how VH1 succeeded in snagging me into their reality love show scene! It all started a couple years ago when I started watching I Love New York…and so on and so on. The advertising and promoting that VH1 does definitely works and I am proof of that!
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I think that pretty much everyone who watches these shows becomes annoyed with them! I like to watch some and not others, yet I hate the content and storyline among all of them!
ReplyDeleteYou're so right in saying that Vh1 succeeded in snagging people into the reality show scene; I think people find comfort in watching "real" people do "real" things. And these real things never end up working out perfectly, which opposes most scripts for sitcoms, etc. Though, I personally feel that some of those shows are scripted--specifically to add conflict that doesn't have an obvious solution.
Oh my gosh....so I totally watched Corn-Fed win...and how addicting are these stupid dumb shows. I sit there and watch this trash! It's amazing how easy it is to get into these shows. My sad addiction...Rock of Love. Vh1 is a powerful network among television. I have noticed this trend quite well like you too. And the worst thing is that I know its fake... at least to some degree. I was watching "The Hills" and my husband came over to me and asked me why I watch this show. He said it’s a show about absolutely nothing. He also claimed it was scripted and they are paid. I believe there is truth in this, but I still watch it. And the worst thing is if I had children I wouldn't want them to watch anything like I presently do. And I am afraid it could just get worse.
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