reality TV

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Star Trek

America

Britain

cooking

yelling

real estate

budget

real estate agent

realtor

stimulus check

house hunting

spectatorship

ceviche

Monday Morning quarterbacking

British English (language)

Jersey Shore

bachelor

diversity

whiteness

quarrelling

stoner

achieving failure

service industry

server | waiter/waitress

childbirth

pregnancy

is television in which 'real people' falsely play themselves.

The distinction might be made in this regard between so-called 'reality' TV shows, in which 'real people' falsely play themselves (275), and something like the 1920 restaging of the 1917 October Revolution, in which the participants, simply by playing their assigned roles, did away with any distance between them and the new social order (48-9, 130).

is not reality, it's just another aesthetic form of fiction.

Reality shows are all the rage on TV at the moment. But that's not reality, it's just another aesthetic form of fiction.

is compulsive viewing, but then so were public hangings in years gone by.

(of Big Brother The show is compulsive viewing, but then so were public hangings in years gone by.

reality TV, n.All

reality TV