Emma Judy – Special to the Southern News
If you are a fan of reality television, like a hardcore fan like I am you’ve probably have heard someone say to, “You know that is all scripted right?” If you’re anything like me a little piece of you dies. Yes, I know that these shows are really scripted but I want to believe that these fabulous people are having these explosive fights all on their own, but in reality some fights have been filmed multiple times to make sure the camera gets all the right angles.
There are many different types of reality television out there, you have your camera follows you around everywhere like the Kardashians. Or the shows that are supposed to be documentary like MTV’s well known franchise Teen Mom. Or the ones where they shove a bunch of people in house to see how they socialize with other like MTV’s Real World or CBS Big Brother.
Shows like Keeping Up with Kardashians are so engrossing because you want to see how the other half lives. You know the types, the rich people who can get whatever they want with a drop of hat. You dream of living that life because for whatever reason your life is hard or isn’t as fabulous. But then you see their faces plastered all over the tabloids and for every little thing that they do. Then you realized that they no longer have a private life, all because they let 4-5 cameras follow them around.
A show like Teen Mom or 16 and Pregnant you watch are just grateful that this isn’t happening to. You are grateful that you can be sure that if your relationship with someone you love isn’t going to fall apart while its being filmed to be on TV for the whole country to see. And you also know that every move you make as a person, as a friend, as a child or as a parent isn’t being judge for whole world to comment on, unlike the people who sign themselves up to be on these shows.
If someone told me I had to be on any reality show it would be a show where they put a bunch of strangers in a house and tell them to just live. In fact those are my favorite ones to watch. But even those shows have downfalls and that make it that people’s lives can totally change because of one stupid mistake. This summer on CBS summer hit, Big Brother, had a lot of controversy when many of the contestant made racist and inappropriate comments that left many of the contestants out of a job when they left the house.
When a camera is around everyone changes, you have the people who will try and act like nothing is ever wrong in their lives, everything is perfect. Or the people who want to have the story shared looking for sympathy from the world. But who are these people when the cameras aren’t on them? That is what is important when truly getting to know someone but when someone is on TV the average person only cares about what’s going on their screen and not who they are deep down inside.
Whether the show is something that a person is brought into by the fact that you were born into a rich family or because your life is interesting or because you want spend a summer locked in a house with a bunch of strangers your life will change because of reality but no matter what the people watching you on TV will find entertainment in whatever you bring to the table.
