You know what, she's a pretty good actress because the show looked real. She did a great job of it. And you know, it was fun. And that was the point of it, right? I'm sure if it wasn't augmented with actors and scripted scenes it would be boring as hell, so why not make it fun? Besides, I don't know if it really was meant to be an actual reality show or more like a parody of her life.
I just saw a "reality" one off show about old TV sitcom stars on TV Land. It's called "Living In TV Land". It was about Sherman Hemsley from The Jeffersons and at the beginning he's talking to that lady who played his maid, I can't remember her name, but she suggests he throw a dinner party and when he does it includes all these people who had been in his different shows over the years. Now, come on. People don't just happen to have spontaneous reunion dinner parties on the spurr of the moment. I don't think Reality TV is real at all.
Speaking of which, have any of you seen "Shock Treatment? It was supposed to be a sequel to Rocky Horror, but it doesn't really have much at all to do with it. The reason I bring it up is because the plot of the movie has Brad and Janet, now married, living in Denton where the whole town has become a giant TV studio and all of the main character's lives have become TV shows. This was 1981, many years before shows like "The Real World" made reality TV an actual genre. It just came out on DVD and I highly recommend it. The songs are 80's new wave and really fun. But one word of warning, if you are a Rocky Horror fan and have not seen it yet, try not to compare it or you will totally hate it. It's nothing at all like Rocky, but there are a bunch of in-jokes and you can see props from Rocky spattered throughout the sets.
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