Tag: reality tv

When you live alongside anything for a long time — any person, any character, any narrative structure, any screen flicker — you become a part of it and it becomes a part of you.

Love and guilt about reality TV.

What one of TV’s longest-running reality shows says about race and our relationship with the police.

Drywall, meet sledgehammer.

If the “real” self is inside us, why do we constantly seek to transform our outer surfaces?

Revisiting Taffy Brodesser-Akner’s 2014 GQ profile of Chris Harrison, the longtime host of ‘The Bachelor.’

Nagging questions and doubts remain. Have we somehow prostituted ourselves for the vicarious entertainment of television viewers? Has the private language, the intimate currency of our happy household, been debased by making it public? I had thought it would be ‘fun.’ I was wrong. But somehow it has felt like an education of sorts — […]

Kris and her children didn’t do much press for Season 10, unheard-of for this family or anyone promoting a TV show, really. Call it an educated guess to say that perhaps they didn’t want to be asked about Bruce’s transition. But not because they were shielding Bruce, whom they love. It was not because he […]