Our talk in class last week about reality telelvision and how it has become a widely accepted form of entertainment made me think of how out of hand it is getting. It started out as a great idea; the writers were on strike and the easiest solution was to let television write itself. Now a days it has turned into a cultural phenomenom. Reality stars are literally everywhere and it is crazy how attached the viewers are becomin to these programs. For example, I was in Texas this summer visiting one of my best friends and got a glimpse at a very popular reality television show I had never seen before - Big Brother. Her and her mom used to be obsessed with it and just had to turn it on. Never seeing it before I had no idea what was going on but they filled me in on the characters. Turns out one of them, Shelley, had been playing the game very two faced. To me, it's not that big of deal, it's just a silly game on television but to its loyal viewers I soon learned it's much more than that. During an elimination she had voted out someone that she was supposed to have been on a team with saying he stood in the way of her winnings for her and her daughter. I didn't think twice of it until a few hours after the show I started scrolling through a news app on my phone. To my surprise I saw that Big Brother fans were so outraged that they had been sending death threats to Shelley and her daughter as well as calling her place of employment demanding they fire her. I was shocked to say the least. This was really happening over a game on T.V.? It absolutely blew my mind but I guess that proves how sucked into reality telelvision people can get.
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