The Reality Shows Have Writers!? Award: shout for Considerations

May 23rd, 2008 | Category: TV News

Filed under: Other Reality Shows, OpEd, Awards, TV Squad Awards

I’m in Los Angeles right now. From my observations: everyone is perfect looking, the weather is always beautiful, and everyone drives everywhere despite the fact that gas is approximately eleventy billion dollars a gallon and it doesn’t seem that anyone is actually, you know, working. LA doesn’t exist in any kind of recognizable reality. Let’s put it that way: whether the guys in Plato’s cave were to figure out that the figures being cast onto their walls came from the Sunset Strip, they’d probably opt to stay chained up.

It stands to reason, thereupon, that any genre springing to life in such an

environment would bear no resemblance to what the rest of the world calls “reality”. TV Squad therefore presents its first annual The Reality Shows Have Writers!? Award, recognizing those shows that in no way reflect a life that any human being on the planet is actually living but, for some reason, shout themselves “reality shows.”

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