The Real World

God do I love the Real World....tackling tough issues one episode at a time. Tonight's issue was depression, brought up by the lovely Erica who suffers from depression and was even hospitalized for it.

I have a love hate relationship with the Real World. I love the show because of the insane drama that occurs on every episode and the fact that the producers delude themselves enough to actually believe that what they are capturing is close to what happens in the Real World.

I hate to break it to them but they are not capturing the Real World. What they are doing is throwing a bunch of hormonal late teen to early twenties kids in a house, giving them a camera crew to follow them around and asking them to create authentic television. Nothing that a person does when they have a camera on them 24/7 is going to be anywhere close to authentic. These people are acting and playing up all their issues for the camera so they can get the most camera time.

I feel that it is stupid that people take this show seriously and think that it's authentic at all. If you were to throw 7-8 strangers in a house together they would not all the sudden start spilling their secrets and pasts to each other. The only reason they open up the way they do is because they have nothing else to do in their house and they are feed alcohol constantly.

The bone that I have to pick with the particular episode that I'm watching right now is that fact that all these people act as though they are friends and yet bitch about each other to the camera when they are alone in the confessional. It's like this:

Erica: OMG bff!!
Ashley: Yea I know I f-ing love you Erica
Erica: We should live together after this!!!!
**Erica walks into the confessional**
Erica: OMG I FUCKING HATE ASHLEY!!!!!

Seriously I know that in the real world people do shit talk each other- but not in that way. People say that sorority girls are bitches take a look at the girls on the real world. I think that people need to balls up on this show and be honest. As I'm writing this the two girls that have been two-faced bitches to each other for this whole episode have finally come clean with each others THANK GOD!!!

So yes I love the drama of the real world...I love watching roommates sleep with each other or freak out when one of them is gay and the rest of them don't accept it. But what I don't love is the delusion that this show perpetuates to the rest of the country. As a 22 year old person (falling well within the target age group of the show) I can tell you that if you stuck me in a house with a bunch of people that I didn't know I would not act that way these people do. I would not drink myself into idiocy and I wouldn't lay all my problems out for America to see. Don't these people realize that life exists outside of the show and what they do on the show is going to be seen by employers. good luck getting a job crazy!

In conclusion I do not think that MTV should take the Real World off the air I just think they should re-name the show and categorize things differently- its not a reality show its a scripted reality show.