While flipping through channels recently, I couldn't help but notice the ever growing number of so called reality TV shows. Everywhere you look these days, there is yet another and another. My question is whose reality it is suppose to be? I think the flaw in these shows is that the reality is based on the show business version of reality and not what the every day ordinary person's reality is. Are the writers all out of ideas to entertain us that they have to try to find a new reality for us? What does that say about all of us who watch?.
I don't know about you, but my personal reality has nothing to do with competing for a million dollar check. I don't know anyone who ever won a house or a bunch of money or a girlfriend. In my world it doesn't work that way. In whose world does it? I"ve heard that everyone is entitled to their fifteen minutes of fame but this is ridiculous. I get the "All the world is a stage and all the men and women merely players" routine. (1) These new reality TV shows feature everything from disasters in meeting your girlfriend's parents to competing to be the last person on an island to choosing between love and money. All of these shows offer a twist of some kind. I can hardly bring myself to turn on the TV anymore. .
The TV show for love or money is about a guy who is given a bunch of beautiful girl to choose from. He narrows the pick down to one lucky girl. What the poor guy doesn't know is that all the women involved are competing to be the chosen chic so they can get their own choice. The lucky woman gets a choice between the guy who picked her or a check for a million dollars. On what planet does this happen in real life? Anyway, the last woman standing is Erin on this show. The twist (ha, ha) is that Erin gets to decide to either take the money or burn the check. This would not be a hard choice for me. Erin decides to burn the check so that she can get another fifteen minutes of fame with a reality show of her own with a chance at two million dollars.