America's next top model is...

I love watching TV. particularly in the evenings when I come home after work. However, I do not indulge in reality TV when I watch my shows at night. I usually watch Adult Swim or sitcoms. Reality TV is something I watch when I have nothing else to watch when I am home during the daytime. A show I will admit to watching is Wife Swap during the evenings sometimes. However, I do not obsess over it or care for it that much. When I was in high school I was more addicted to reality TV. I used to follow America’s Next Top Model like a religion. I watched two seasons of Flavor of Love and I watched the spin-off show I love New York. I remember watching at least two seasons of Rock of Love, then the spin-off for that show Charm School, but just the season with Sharon Osbourne as the teacher.




What I liked about reality shows when I was younger was all the drama they put on. The first episodes are always shaky because there are a lot of people. Later, as the shows progress, you become familiar with the characters. It almost seems real. You become addicted because either you can relate to a character or you are just fully entertained by all the commotion. It always ends with somebody in tears going home, and soon they progress to a final winner. Sometimes the winner may get their own show, if they are popular enough. After a while though, you realize it is all the same and I guess I got over it and now can barely make myself watch another episode. I remember just the other week I watched America’s next top model and I was able to pretty much guess everything before it happened. They are that uninteresting to me anymore.



I believe these shows target certain age groups. For example, when I was 16 in high school I loved watching America’s Next Top Model because all the contestants are around the age group of 18 to 20’s. What little girl does not want to be a model? This can either be a good thing or a bad thing for society. The good thing is sometimes; the winners may get money, fame, whatever they are looking for. The bad side is sometimes they could just end up looking stupid in front of millions of people. Every show has a writer and a producer who make the show they want it to be. Society is targeted for every reality show and the writers try to bring that element into the show. It is for pure entertainment. It does not portray reality at all. Reality does have its drama and its entertainment which is why I do not need TV to have that. It makes ordinary people celebrities for pretty much no reason. The shows find their target audience and use random unknown people to act to get ratings. It is purely for the money.