Tom's Take:
So I enjoy reality TV. Not because it's in any way "real," but rather because it is one of the few times where you can see people having ridiculous and clearly staged fights while shouting "this is real!" How can anyone resist that?
So I enjoy reality TV. Not because it's in any way "real," but rather because it is one of the few times where you can see people having ridiculous and clearly staged fights while shouting "this is real!" How can anyone resist that?
Reality gameshows are a little different, since the focus for me is not so much on the "reality" as on the competition. Still I enjoy them, and I've watched most of the seasons of Big Brother and Survivor. Now, I've never watched Amazing Race, despite there apparently being 19 seasons of it so far, but when I found out that Amazing Race 20 was going to feature Brendon and Rachel from Big Brother 12, and 13, known to most fans as Brenchel, I found myself intrigued. Brenchel was the main spectacle that attracted to Big Brother 12, the first season I watched before getting hooked and going back to watch most of the earlier seasons. Am I a Brenchel fan? That's a complicated question. The easy answer is no, but I think on some visceral level that I really am, because I love to watch these two on television. They have ridiculous fights about things like whether Rachel calls Brendon "bukey." So it comes back to the question. How can anyone resist that?
