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Category Archives: Reality Shows
Cue the Sun!: The Invention of Reality TV
Here are some highlights from this 2024 book by Emily Nussbaum: * If you could knock your subjects off balance, they’d reveal a moment so shocking and, sometimes, so tender or surprising, that it would shatter viewer skepticism. It was … Continue reading
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Decoding The Netflix Show ‘Love is Blind’ (5-20-24)
01:00 https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/05/27/is-love-is-blind-a-toxic-workplace03:40 Dennis Prager’s Thoughts On Harrison Butker’s Speech07:00 Love is blind expose, https://www.avclub.com/love-is-blind-new-expose-renee-poche-lawsuit-netflix-185148899412:00 Love Is Blind Allegations EXPOSED! Contestants SUING Netflix Show!28:00 Inside Love Is Blind’s Brutal Conditions on Set50:10 Destiny: Debate King and/or Degenerate?, https://decoding-the-gurus.captivate.fm/episode/destiny-the-edge-of-unhinged-degeneracy1:08:00 Nathan Cofnas interview, … Continue reading
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LAT: ‘Cops’ creator John Langley dies during road race in Mexico
From the New York Times June 29, 2021: “In the Academy interview four years earlier, Mr. Langley addressed criticism about race in “Cops” by saying that while 60 to 70 percent of street crime was “caused by people of color,” … Continue reading
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