Hunger Games on TV

When reading Hunger Games I could not help but constantly make connections to Survivor. These people are thrown onto an island many of them with little to no outdoors training fight for survival to win 1 million dollars. These characters are told to "outwit, outplay, outlast" their opponents in order to achieve the grand prize at the end, they form bonds with the other competitors, and form relationships, mainly for the sole purpose to turn around and turn on them the very moment they get the chance to. The viewers get the satisfaction of basically watching these people suffer through immense physical and mental torture all for a million dollars, which looking at it from an outsiders perspective after taxes in this day and age is a lot of money but not a mega life changing amount of money to where people should trade in their moral values just so they do not get voted off the island. So the question arises, how much money does it take for people to throw away their life values.

Reality Television

Reality television has been a staple of the American viewership since the Real World blasted onto the scene in 1992. The fascination with how these people act on a day to day basis is crazy, I understand why people do enjoy it though, it portrays almost every aspects of human life, except for the normalcy and plainness of day to day life. I believe that is the allure of  reality television many people watch these because they find interest in the ridiculousness of the situations these people get themselves into and see a brief action packed one hour of television because they find their own lives plain to a certain extent. Personally, I am not big into reality television so I decided I would watch an episode of the most rediculous reality show out there which is Basketball Wives, and it was just awesome it was just yelling and fighting for an hour, it was so entertaining. It's just like when people say it is like a trainwreck awful but you cannot look away, I knew what I was watching wasn't quality television but at the same time I was enamored at what would happen next.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hCq3OxGT65c

This is a clip from the episode I watched, there is really no character depth in this show and although I will never watch another episode of Basketball Wives, it was really entertaining but there is no way I would watch another episode.