Sylvia by Nicole Hollander for January 15, 2010

Her life coach would really hate me - I’ve never watched a single episode of any reality show.

The only reality shows I’ve watch are “Big Cat Diary” & “Meerkat Manor”. Scripted by the animals themselves. Now that’s reality.

I’ve never seen one either. Maybe we should start a club?

I love ‘em! I watch them all: Fashion Bully, Find the Neighborhood Pervert, Child Abuse House, Rogue Cop, Crack Ho Diary, Swamped and Swindled, Old and Forgotten, Prison Rapist, ER Neglect, and all the rest. Reality shows are great. You don’t have to pay writers, just put people in bad situations and take advantage of their human weaknesses. Watching people at their worst is what makes America great.

I hate reality shows also.

reality shows, with a script and a camera hovering, ironically are not real

mivins - Yes, let’s start a club. We’ll call it the sane people! Give me comedy any day. Even the news is scripted most of the time.

I too hate reality TV shows and Project Runway is stupid. Why or why can’t someone come up with a good show with a compatible cast??????

Oh yes, also don’t like soap operas.

We seem to have a consensus here.

I’ve never liked soap operas, reality shows or, lately, TV in general…

AYE

AYE!

I got rid of my TV in 1990. But I love watching reality shows. The other day, my cat and I are watching one called “backyard”, when a squirrel scampers onto the back porch turns around, and starts waving his tail in the cats direction. The squirrels do this a lot: it is a kind of death defying game. The cat is crouched in his sprinters stance, and I yank open the back door. The cat is out like a shot, and the squirrel takes off toward the tree. It is all over in seconds. It was close - it seemed like the cat was going to get the tail, but the tail was yanked forward at the last split second, and they were up the tree, where the squirrel quickly pulled ahead.