There is “Nothing” real about reality TV. Its all cleaver and often not so cleaver slight of hand designed to fool the fools. It’s entertainment nothing more. You are not suppose to think about the multiple camera angles, the changing of the light reflectors for the different angles, and the sound booms and stage crews just out of sight. That 30 second spot shown on the program could have taken several hours to set up and shoot. We caught this on the TV show “Tanked” which is about a crew that builds custom fish tanks. One short segment that was about 15 seconds of air time started out showing a receptionist and behind her a clock showing 12:14. The camera moved onto someone else in the room and then back to her. The clock now was after 4 pm.
The only show I like is Pawn Stars but even that is phony and scripted. I met real visitors to that store, and they say you don’t even see the cast members, and there is a large line to get in now that the store is a TV star. They actually close the store for the program shooting, allowing only a limited number in just for realities sake.
The ‘reality’ is these shows are a slice of life - are a form of documentary and cheap to produce. They do have ‘regular folks’ appeal and are often quite educational.
After watching a few episodes of Pawn Stars, American Pickers, Storage Wars, Auction Kings, Repo etc., I did become bored with the repetition.
As many have noted “If you are paying to store your belongings in a locker; you probably don’t need it”. As for valuable collector items - keep them at the house. If you have elderly relatives with storage problems - help them out.
Beaver Cleaver?
There is “Nothing” real about reality TV.
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Hilarious.
But scary to think some might not understand that.