Reality TV started to come around only two or three years ago. To my knowledge, the first ever reality TV show was Big Brother. Named after the dictator Big Brother from George Orwell's book 1984 (who watched over the people of his country using huge television sets), it's where 12 housemates are in a house with many microphones and video cameras. People at home watch this show to see what's happening in the house and how the housemates are getting along. Each week, a housemate gets evicted until only one is left and wins the major prize. In all my life, I've only watched one show of Big Brother and believe me, it sucked! Who in all seriousness would want to watch 12 boring people in a small boring house do boring things? I mean, it's like taping yourself or watching yourself in a mirror 24 hours a day, 7 days a week! I don't think that's exciting, do you? Even when the housemates try to make it exciting, they get evicted! I heard how a contestent in the American version got thrown out after he said to another housemate "I want to kill you," (or something to that effect) while holding a kitchen knife. When I heard about this, I thought to myself "Why would he do this?" At first, I thought he was a maniac, but later, I got the big picture. He wanted to make the show a pinch more exciting by threatening to commit murder in the house. Seriously, he wouldn't kill anyone while millions of people are watching and think he would get away with it, right? It's amazing that they threw him out. Damn TV producers and executives want to bore us to death! If you actually watch (and enjoy) Big Brother than you are certainly 99 cents short of a dollar.
Another crappy reality TV show is Survivor, a show where a number of contestants are standed for weeks on end at some exotic location like a tropical island in the Pacific, Thailand or the outback in Australia. Each of the castaways vote a member off each week until only one person remains and therefore, the survivor wins a million dollars. When I first heard about this, I said to myself, "Great! Another shitty reality TV show!" But one thing really got me here. If the point of the show is to survive, then why does the host keep checking up on them while giving them rice, then comes back and visits them a few days later to play a lame game to win more food? If becoming a survivor on a desert island is this easy, no wonder people don't look for them straight away .............
