The Real World

In the reading for class on Tuesday we were to read an essay entitled Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs. In this essay the author talks about the characters on the reality television program called The Real World. Now the only problem with this show is because its supposed to be regular people living in one house with a bunch of strangers. Now the way they choose these roommates is kind of weird to me, they interview tons of people to only pick people that will completely that they know will have problems with other people after a while. By them doing this it brings a lot of drama to the show thus they have high ratings and make lots and lots of money. This is not what reality television is to me for this to be complete reality television for me they should select all the roommates at random, just pull name out of a hat or something. Now this would be very interesting to me because it is really reality, you may have a cast that likes each other or you might have a cast that can’t stand each other. The randomness of the show is the X factor to me that will make it stand out from the others. If the producers of MTV’s The Real world were to actually do this they could then truly claim it as a reality television show. Otherwise to me it is almost like a regular old scripted drama that have been around for years.