Scripted Reality

Reality shows have taken over the television. Drama, cooking, love, life, forensic, and other reality televisions fill television channels. Although there are very few I enjoy watching, such as, ‘The Little Couple.’ This show is one of my favorites, because it shows a beautiful love between the couple, and their journey on adopting their two precious children. This show is definitely worth watching compared to other drama based reality TV shows. Don’t get me wrong, there are a good handful of reality shows that I love watching, but other shows are just a waist of space on channels.  Television shows have changed a lot. Many shows on MTV are reality shows revolving around other people’s drama. Then again I’m not into drama to begin with, so I don’t have the satisfaction of watching other peoples.

Romantic based reality television shows are secretly my guilty pleasure. I do get annoyed with other drama related television shows but some shows like, ‘The Bachelor,’ are shows I enjoy. Television shows like these don’t involve people cussing at each other or girls pulling each other’s hair. All the yelling in those shows annoys me. I used to enjoy watching, ‘Teen Mom,’ because I was always interested on how teens would be moms, but later once their relationship drama, and how some of them do not change their bad habits for their baby, started to upset me. I felt like some moms should not be allowed to be TV famous.

Reality Television shows in my opinion can be both, harmful and beneficial to society. Harmful, because many teenagers watch drama filled reality shows and they get so caught up in it and begin to think that the bad behavior showed on these shows is okay. Beneficial, because some of these television shows give good life points to live by, and are actually helpful for our own reality. Also for some shows like, ’19 Kids and Counting,’ I find it interesting to watch because it’s so cool to see how such a huge family lives on a day-to-day basis.

Overall, I understand reality TV shows can be really tempting to watch, to get a glimpse on how others live. Then again there are a good handful of people on these shows that love drama and bring it to the show and do not make them enjoyable to watch. Trying to think of all the reality TV shows, it is crazy to think that so many channels are filled with these shows. It is crazier to think that people really enjoy watching the drama and yelling going on in these shows. As much as I hate to admit sometimes I do get ragged in to watching the drama reality TV shows, one was ‘Jersey Shore.’ All the craziness going on in these shows made me avoid watching it. My cousin slowly got me into watching it, it is not a show I kept up with, but its crazy how these shows catch our attention one way or another. As much as some of us hate to admit, these shows can be pointless to watch but sometimes you can’t help but watch a few minutes of it.