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Jesse_Custer posted...

How about for you?

I agree with all of your points.

In an expansion to your first point, the bad thing about regular people taking it upon themselves to exaggerate a personality is that they aren't writers. They are mostly untalented people seeking fame, so their attempts at 'writing' a character of themselves is based on what they have seen on TV, which leads to a lot of dull cliches, more than you'd get from an actual written show, so it's not even worthwhile as a low-brow drama/comedy/whatever they are going for. Most of these people lack any real improvisation skill too, which makes it bad.

In addition, many shows straight up script false drama (Kardashians, Pawn Stars, Survivor, The Bachelor, etc) and the people clearly aren't actors, so it's never able to be sold, and it's often vapid in content anyway.

I suppose I hold more of a grudge against the genre for what it did to TV for a while, especially in the 2000s when all the networks were heavily bandwagoning into it.

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