Reality? Please leave me to my Fantasy.
Last night saw the launch of a new reality series. I have a confession. I have never watched a full episode of any of the so called ‘reality’ shows. I have never even watched a single minute of “Survivor” or “Fear Factor” etc. I did catch a few minutes of one of the “Bob the Bachelor” shows. But those few minutes confirmed my self-assessment that watching them would be too agonizing to waste my time on.
This new series has the dubious distinction of trying to pair a beautiful woman with several men who do not have what might be termed as good looks. Just watching the promos is nearly as painful as watching the show. These shows seem to be filled with the most debasing kinds of revelations of personal feelings.
However, I doubt that the male participants of “Average Joe” will get so emotionally involved with the object of the show as the women who seemed to all fall madly for Bob. Will their emotions get trashed? I doubt it.
Also, while the idea of putting a woman up and humiliating her expectations is about as low as you can go. Oh wait. There is one more floor on the descending elevator for reality television. How about a show called “Plain Jane” where they put up several average looking women for a hunk to pick and choose from? Somehow I doubt that will ever happen.
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