Adilene Pimentel
English R101
Hybrid class Wednesday nights
Discusssion #3
Reality tv
I am guilty of watching reality TV shows. I occasionally
watch a couple different TV shows for example Grays Anatomy, CSI, Criminal
Minds, and How I Met Your Mother. But that does not mean I sit and watch every
episode of these shows. Since I rarely have any spare time to sit, relax and
watch TV, I usually watch about 30-45 minutes. I do enjoy these kinds of
reality TV shows like Gray’s Anatomy because it gives me a perspective of how
working at a Hospital. CSI and Criminal Minds are just very captivating because
at an earlier time in my life I wanted to pursue a career in the criminology
field. In other words these shows are semi educational, well at least to me they
are. As far as the show How I met your mother it is just a show that I like to
watch to have a good laugh. I personally don’t think there is anything wrong
with sitting and watching Tv for a short period of time. Well depending on what
you sit and watch. If you sit and watch educational shows it is just benefiting
you. But if you sit and watch pointless shows you are just absorbing things
into your brain that pointless.
There
are some reality TV shows that don’t capture my attention and those shows are
Jersey Shore, Teen Mom, Mob Wives etc. I think these shows either show woman
who have no self respect for themselves, practically promote teenage pregnancy,
or are just plain ridiculous and pointless. I believe these types of shows are
harming our society because people of our society think that certain things
shown are acceptable. But in reality they just make you look dumb or they down
grade you. These types of reality shows are the types of reality TV programs I
try to avoid. I believe that our society would be better off without these
types of shows because like I said before they are both pointless and
ridiculous. They do not benefit our society in any shape or form. Some people
become so drawn to these reality TV shows that they base their life decisions
or even dress just like people from these shows. I unfortunately know some
people that are like this, and they really do believe that some of the
decisions they make and things they do are socially expectable.
