Tuesday, April 11, 2006
The Reality Of Reality TV
First off, sorry ‘bout so long in between posts but, well I’ll touch on that later…. maybe.
Anyhoo I was checking out “Hogan Knows Best” today and as much as I love the show, I really can’t take how damn staged it is.
In this particular installment the Hogan family (and that’s Hulk Hogan’s family, not Valerie Harper / Sandy Duncan’s family) went to Key West for vacation. On one particularly boring day the brother and the sister went out and around without the parents, but with strict instructions from the Hulkster to stay together. Well of course they didn’t and the daughter winds up coming back to the hotel like six hours late. The whole time the Hogan’s are freaking out, calling the police, crying, all sorts of rigmarole. We the audiences however, know she’s ok and just shopping; we even get to see what she’s buying.
Then it dawns on me.
She has a camera crew following her.
Um, does Hulk think that the camera crew is going to sit there and tape something really, really bad happening to her? Why is Hulk calling the police to find her and not the camera crew?
So now Hulk has totally ruined my belief that reality TV is real. The next thing you know he’ll do the same with professional wrestling.
Anyhoo I was checking out “Hogan Knows Best” today and as much as I love the show, I really can’t take how damn staged it is.
In this particular installment the Hogan family (and that’s Hulk Hogan’s family, not Valerie Harper / Sandy Duncan’s family) went to Key West for vacation. On one particularly boring day the brother and the sister went out and around without the parents, but with strict instructions from the Hulkster to stay together. Well of course they didn’t and the daughter winds up coming back to the hotel like six hours late. The whole time the Hogan’s are freaking out, calling the police, crying, all sorts of rigmarole. We the audiences however, know she’s ok and just shopping; we even get to see what she’s buying.
Then it dawns on me.
She has a camera crew following her.
Um, does Hulk think that the camera crew is going to sit there and tape something really, really bad happening to her? Why is Hulk calling the police to find her and not the camera crew?
So now Hulk has totally ruined my belief that reality TV is real. The next thing you know he’ll do the same with professional wrestling.
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Yeah, sorry, Kirk. Reality TV is heavily scripted. If anything, I'd say Reno 911 is more reality. At least they're up front. "We're improvising this, y'all - but we have a general idea of how we want the show to go and we have been working together 10+ years."
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