Seems like we don't get enough reality from our own lives these days and we have this insatiable need to look into the "real" lives of anyone on camera, even if we have no clue who they are. Jon&Kate plus 8, Cake Boss, Hell's Kitchen, Big Brother, and countless others, when you really watch the shows, you realize that they're all the same - nothing really happens, really; at least that's my take on it.
It's smart though, the marketers and producers know that we can't get enough of gossip and dirt and everything related to that stuff. We watch whatever they churn out - provided there's a lot of "drama" and "suspense" - and they make tons of money.
Anyways, the latest in line (at least to my knowledge) of reality TV is this show called Over The Bolts - which apparently follows the "Epic Journey" of the Canadian snowboarding team. Now I'm all for snowboarding, but isn't the term "epic" kinda really misused nowadays?
I watched one or two episodes of this new show and in one of them two guys on the team sat in a hot-tub with two girls that they just met and eventually went back to their hotel room and began pouring alcohol down the throats of the girls. Soon after the girls had to leave and one of the guys said to the camera, "They used us man, they used us".
Epic?
Over the Bolts on MTV
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