Bravo’s Real Housewives of New Jersey battle between Teresa Giudice and the Gorgas is the latest example of a reality show about a family imploding
shows, the cast discussed how corrosive the show can be to their relationships. Sometimes, when I’ve watched reality TV sending a formally happy couple on the fast track to divorce, I’ve wanted to crawl through the TV screen and shake them: “Is this really worth it? Just quit the show!”’s resident feuding family. It’s impossible to separate the tension between Giudice and the Gorgas from the show itself.
These are not normal family tensions. Usually, if people are at odds, they take some time away from each other. But it’s impossible to do that if you’re being paid to attend events together — and argue — on camera. It’s also not normal to have to relive conflicts months later and have millions of fans and media outlets offering their opinions and commentary on what happened. .
Thirst for fame aside, the answer to this might be similar to the question of why families fight in the first place: because they’re messy and the dynamics we carry from childhood into adulthood are complicated. , who passed away in April, made a career out of bringing these messy family feuds into our living rooms. His show, which defined early reality TV, inspired a whole genre of daytime TV shows likethat capitalized on real dramas from working-class America. It’s a dynamic that was popular, but plainly exploitative. Often, clearly vulnerable people were encouraged to take a wrecking ball to their lives and literally throw chairs at each other in the name of good TV.
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