What Reality Shows Are Actually Cool.

[SEVERUSMAX]

For me, Hardcore Pawn is pretty neat. There's a few others. But I won't be caught dead watching Jersey Shore. That despite having been shown pics of Snookie. She's cute, but not enough to overcome my aversion to the show's underlying premise (or lack of one, I should say). If you wanted to make an interesting show about Jersey, why not feature some gangsters? (That's real gangsters, not the baggy pants type.)

Of course, Ashley from Hardcore Pawn is easy on the eyes and rather spirited, too, in a good way.

 

[Derroreaper]

I don't watch much reality TV, but I do like Duck Dynasty. It got set to record on the DVR and I ended up liking it. When I was younger I enjoyed MTV's "The real world" as well.

 

[Ldy_Sea]

Sons of Guns is really good. Pawn star & Hardcore Pawn are the only 3 I can stand. The rest like survivor suck.

 

[TheeGoatPig]

I watch The ultimate Fighter. At least it is a real competition where they compete with their actual skills as fighters in a tournament of fighting, unlike Survivor where they are on an island, but have all of this nonsense to compete in that has nothing to do with anything.

Pawn Stars is fun too.

 

[Ellafun]

I like Face Off on the SyFy network. Just cool special effects makeup and not too much drama!

 

[TxRad]

Reality and TV should never be used in the same sentence.

Whose reality is my only question?

 

[Cruel2BKind]

I'm partial to mythbusters myself...

That's a reality show, right?

 

[Zeb_Carter]

Top Shot and Storage War$ are the only ones I watch.

To Sev: Snookie cute! Well...maybe kinda like frog cute...maybe.

 

[The_Young_Swell]

Manor House (1800s)
The 1900 House
The Victorian Farm
The Victorian Farm Christmas
Victorian Pharmacy
The Edwardian Country House
Edwardian Farm
The 1940s House

Like all reality television, how much reality they contain is debatable, but they do work as a demonstration of how life was lived, and how people of this era react when trying to live under the conditions and customs of a previous era.

Most are from the BBC, all are from England, but have aired at some time on PBS in the US and at one place or another in all English-speaking countries.

 

[SEVERUSMAX]

Top Shot and Storage War$ are the only ones I watch.

To Sev: Snookie cute! Well...maybe kinda like frog cute...maybe.

I have a weakness for plump girls. But what little I've seen from previews tells me that her personality is "nails across the chalkboard" irritating.

 

[Zeb_Carter]

I have a weakness for plump girls. But what little I've seen from previews tells me that her personality is "nails across the chalkboard" irritating.

That too...while my opinion of her is just that...mine...I can't help but feel ill each of the two times I have seen her on the screen.

 

[mynameisben]

I used to be a huge fan of The Clock Channel until I found out they only recorded one episode and were showing it over and over again in the same time slot.

 

[Ldy_Sea]

I'm partial to mythbusters myself...

That's a reality show, right?

I reject your reality TV and substitute my own.

 

[TE999]

Pawn Stars, Ice Road Truckers and American Pickers are pretty cool 'Reality' shows. So's Antique's Roadshow and This Old House on PBS.

 

[TheeGoatPig]

I don't consider Mythbusters Reality TV. It's a science show, with scripting and reshoots.

 

[Cruel2BKind]

As far as Jersey Shore, I never joked about it because I had never seen it. In the back of my mind I was willing to accept that maybe it was an okay show that people just wanted to make a fuss about.

Then my roommate started watching it while I was trying to study.

Those people are ear-bleedingly annoying, obnoxious, and I don't see how any of them could survive without this show to give them money. They are helpless, hopeless when it comes to interacting with people, and just generally asinine.

I'm willing to postulate that maybe they are better people when not fucking up on camera, but I seriously doubt it. If you need to lose a friend or get removed from a will, start watching that show around other people.

 

[pierrelarue161]

As far as Jersey Shore, I never joked about it because I had never seen it. In the back of my mind I was willing to accept that maybe it was an okay show that people just wanted to make a fuss about.

Then my roommate started watching it while I was trying to study.

Those people are ear-bleedingly annoying, obnoxious, and I don't see how any of them could survive without this show to give them money. They are helpless, hopeless when it comes to interacting with people, and just generally asinine.

I'm willing to postulate that maybe they are better people when not fucking up on camera, but I seriously doubt it. If you need to lose a friend or get removed from a will, start watching that show around other people.

The camera does have that effect on some people. It turns them into buffoons or worse for attention (and endorsements, I'm sure...think that Snookie isn't looking to bank on her aggravating personality). It's a schtick, really.

 

[pierrelarue161]

I don't consider Mythbusters Reality TV. It's a science show, with scripting and reshoots.

And Kari Byron. God, she's awesome. Smart, saucy, and sexy.

 

[TxRad]

The camera does have that effect on some people. It turns them into buffoons or worse for attention (and endorsements, I'm sure...think that Snookie isn't looking to bank on her aggravating personality). It's a schtick, really.

But where is the reality in schtick? To me there is no reality in reality TV>

 

[pierrelarue161]

But where is the reality in schtick? To me there is no reality in reality TV>

Well, when you adopt a persona too closely, you forget your true identity. Much like what Dietrich tells Evey in V For Vendetta.

There is a recent case where a British government agent infiltrated the eco-underground, even took a girlfriend (while being married, which did wonders for his marriage when his wife found out), and everything, only to lose both his government job and the respect of his fellow radicals. He ended up liking the people he was spying on, but much too late to be forgiven from their point of view. (I'm no fan of that stripe of radical, but even less one of the British Government.) I recall that his erstwhile girlfriend told him, "I feel sorry for you. You were a pawn of the State."

Becoming the role is method acting and seems to carry inherent dangers. No doubt Snookie will be unable to be anything other than what she appears to be on Jersey Shore. She has typecast herself. But it's still an act. I hope. I'd like to think that she's not REALLY that stupid.

 

[lance gt]

I like the new one, American Weed. About 5 brothers running a dispensary for MedMar and the problems they have in Colorado, battling local and Federal gov'ts.

 

[pierrelarue161]

I like the new one, American Weed. About 5 brothers running a dispensary for MedMar and the problems they have in Colorado, battling local and Federal gov'ts.

Sounds like an interesting premise.

 

[lance gt]

Sounds like an interesting premise.

It's real life events, so the ending hasn't been made yet. Interesting journey through their lives and what they have to do, to grow, market, understand all the different properties of 25-30 strains for medical purposes and the on-going battle to stay in business, as well as other dispensaries there.

 

[PayDay]

Reality and TV should never be used in the same sentence.

Whose reality is my only question?

This.

I'm partial to mythbusters myself...

That's a reality show, right?

No. They get proven wrong all the time on things they swear cannot happen. As if engineers can comprehend Murphy's Law.

I don't consider Mythbusters Reality TV. It's a science show, with scripting and reshoots.

Exactly. Science =/= reality, it only equals reality within a limited set of parameters within a controlled environment.

To the OP. Don't watch 'reality' when you can live life realistically. Television makes you stupid.

Even the infamous and vaunted Antiques Roadshow inflates prices and makes value assessment mistakes.

 

[3113]

Sweet Genius. What a wonderfully wacky cooking show. Or don't game shows count? I think they do as they no longer involve someone answering questions, but talking about their lives and "performing" live on television to win the game.

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