“Reality” it ain’t. It’s crafted, exploited, tweaked, being steered, engineered, if anything it’s a long way from reality. Reality is boring, tedious in comparison and doesn’t keep the eyeballs watching for those ad dollars.

That said, it really does seem more of US thing to make things larger than life, for instance I see some BBC reality portrayals (just watch their daytime program for some examples) that does seem closer to reality, and less flashy shiny scripted stuff.

So I wonder if it is a culture thing.