Collages on Reality Show

Reality shows...how unreal the format title can be, some people find it as their guilty pleasure. Here are some of them I make time to follow;

AMERICA’S NEXT TOP MODEL
America’s Next Top Model fan might remember how the bitchy contestants always sent home when they had reached the final four or three. Name Melrose in season 7, Renee in season 8, and Bianca in season 9 (hahaha, yeah…I watch the shows). We could see that these contestants looked a lot older than their actual age was. Even though they were driven and doing excellent jobs in photo shoots, there are no way they could go far in the industry that worships youth and freshness. From ANTM first weeks we could see how girls in striking look without attitude were send home without clear reason. We can tell who is going home by the end of an episode since its beginning. Usually there would be more footage on the person revealed her discomfort, problems, and personal matters. Not to mention Tyra’s many words-of-wisdom right before the elimination that once had been mocked by the cycle 7 finalists (c’mon! She made modelling sounds as important as curing AIDS, which I think, ridiculous). These and the fact that in the global fashion industry, it has been years since real top model have come out of America.
ANTM might be using intricacies to win viewers and we all know even though there are other judges in the show, Tyra was the one that decided which girl to send home, so it might be a little bit subjective sometimes. How awful the shows sometimes, it might also be admitted that ANTM had encouraged girls that not considered slim and pretty for strivings their dream.

THE APPRENTICE
The show might seem all professional and businesslike, but we cannot fully say the same when it comes to the losing team in The Apprentice. The Apprentice, which currently in its preparation for season eight, had chosen their candidates carefully. Either the candidates had graduated from one of America’s finest school or they had a very impressive resume. The men are good looking while the women are attractive. In The Apprentice early seasons, the women attractiveness apparently had become a problem. The women that had viewing the show since its season two accused Apprentice’s female were using their beauty for won tasks. As Nicole in season 6 said, “Sex is sale.” However, it needs more than four attractive women in roller skate to win tasks, and it had Angela the Olympic medal winner fired. Angela was not the only project manager that gotten fired while the mistakes they done could easily argue. We who watched the Apprentice sixth season can named Surya and Aimee that were being fired out of uncooperative team members. Sometimes it was not the one that done an awful job that fired, but the one that defended themselves poorly or being gang up by the rest of their group.
Since the third season, The Apprentice ratings had reportedly flunked from Nielsen Top 20s Most Watched Shows. In Indonesia, The Apprentice Indonesia version lasted in first season.



REALITY SHOWS IN QUALITY CHANNELS
Competition reality (show) not always revealed how rude the real world would be. From the backstabber we seen in America’s Next Top Model and The Apprentice, there is still some shows like Project Runway and Come Dine With Me. Both aired in Discovery Travel and Living, a network that usually favored by Indonesia’s middle class viewers with high intelligence and upper economic status.
Come Dine With Me is about five or four person takes turn hosting dinner at their house in one week. After the night each guests will give their score for the host, points is given for meal, presentation, and how the hosts making their guests enjoying the evening. In the end of the week, after the last one having their turn hosting dinner, it will be revealed who’s the week winner.
Come Dine With Me is an interesting television show. They are giving insight look on ordinary people home, their cooking skills, and culinary diversities. Overall the show is like a good food that cooked with fresh ingredients and simple spices. A kind of good meal itself that food critics are likely praised.
We who are working for particular field outside science, information technologies, economics, legal, restauranteur, et ce te ra, knew how bad people could talk behind our back. We knew the pressure, the so-called-friends and colleagues, that never think twice on adding us in Facebook but loves mouthing us too behind our back. As Fiske said in Reading Television, that is why we have celebrity news channel like E!, gossips have become part of our everyday culture.
Reality show contestants might talks behind their rivals back, as seen in The Apprentice and ANTM. In real working world, people do compete, and it is not always in such healthy way. Reality show is the true mirror of how bad people in everyday life could act. Project Runway was different from all this shows. The judge never let personal subjectivity involved. They were no debates or unimportant arguments on which finalist that should be sent home. The one that landed a show in Bryant Park by the end of the season, were the best from all contestants.
No intricacies and the designers also supportive to each other. Well, nasty things sometimes said but never let into argument or huge fight like in ANTM, for example. And if there were one, it was rare. In fact, only Christian Siriano of Project Runway season four I ever heard saying nasty thing toward Ricky.
Most of the time though, Project Runway’s contestants are giving their listening skills or offers help to their fellow participants that not having their design ready yet, or giving generous advice towards each other. Reality show like these, are rare. They are ones that started from a strong concept based on the skills of the participants. For some people, fashion and food are always an attraction.