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Real World
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American society loves to watch other people struggle to deal with life’s hardships. We find this much more entertaining than perfect fairy tales where everyone lives happily ever after. My friend Kim Olsen is the perfect example as every Tuesday night you can find her glued to MTV at ten o’clock to see who will hook up next or who will start a fight with whom. This past summer I became interested in MTV’s, The Real World, because every Tuesday night Kim would watch each episode and then spend the rest of the week discussing it. I knew very little about the show and had only seen it once or twice. However, after spending many Tuesday nights without Kim and having to listen to her non-stop talking about the show and how it was real, I began to wonder what this obsession was all about. So, I decided to sit down with her one night and tune in to The Real World along with doing some research about the background of the show. I’ll admit, I found the show entertaining. However, I found that MTVs’ The Real World is nowhere close to being “real” as a lot of people might say it is. The Real World is a “reality” show that puts seven strangers in a house together to have their everyday lives caught on tape. This show has become popular because it shows how everyday people deal with everyday problems. Furthermore, seeing other people fight with each other and break-down right in front of our eyes makes us feel better about ourselves and helps expose us to issues we might not face in our own lives. When people find a television show that captures all of this, they will want to watch the program all the time and a station will have found themselves a hit (Johnson p.6). The Real World is the perfect example as it has grown to be one of the most watched television programs for more than ten years. Each week, thousands flock to their televisions to see what conflict, romance, fight and mishap will occur this time around in these people’s lives. This show is created and produced to find people they know can make an interesting character based on how they lived thus far and is looking for groups of people they know will clash and cause conflict in the house. While The Real World can be seen as a fake show by some, others actually are fooled into thinking it is real. The arguments Kim give that The Real World is real are that MTV uses real life people who are acting as themselves. They do not hire actors. Furthermore, the footage is real and there are no scripts. Therefore, the show is real since the people are just living their lives in front of a camera. After watching a few episodes of the show and listening to Kim talk about the realness of the characters, I became interested in the people from the other seasons.
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