I totally agree. The last episode as well as the follow up explore this a little, but glad that Ally and Grant are still friends.
Grant was trying to make good TV by creating fun challenges, and Ally was trying create good TV by trying to win. The producers could have stepped in and hinted at the nature of the challenges, or prompted them, scripted them or anything to make it safer, and they didn't.
I thought, as someone who really dislikes all reality TV, that the show was amazing, because it showed the kind of suffering reality TV tries to hide. There was a cash incentive to fucking over your friends, and that really stings.
I don't know if it was worth the suffering for Ally, Grant, or the CollegeHumour office, but the result was a spectacle with a great message.
This series was a chance for them to experiment with the format, but they made it very clear that this was largely in the hands of the players. It was also transparently experimental, which they probably had to portray because they saw how much the players were both impacted.
There is the context that the challenge the week prior to the flea market ,Grant had opted to challenge Ally to be drunk for the full week. Ally would have been thinking about the next weeks challenge of the flea market when they would have been in a compromised state. I think that Ally took this a bridge too far, and when that was clear talked with people they trusted and took a step back.
That said I don't think Grant was focused on just trying to make good TV, and was getting frustrated when Ally had actually gone through with challenges that he thought they would opted out of. Grant also had the only challenge that resulted in a permanent body modification through the form of a tattoo of Ally's girlfriend's name, and had Ally read their childhood diaries as an event at a book store.
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I totally agree. The last episode as well as the follow up explore this a little, but glad that Ally and Grant are still friends.
Grant was trying to make good TV by creating fun challenges, and Ally was trying create good TV by trying to win. The producers could have stepped in and hinted at the nature of the challenges, or prompted them, scripted them or anything to make it safer, and they didn't.
I thought, as someone who really dislikes all reality TV, that the show was amazing, because it showed the kind of suffering reality TV tries to hide. There was a cash incentive to fucking over your friends, and that really stings.
I don't know if it was worth the suffering for Ally, Grant, or the CollegeHumour office, but the result was a spectacle with a great message.
It's all love.
This series was a chance for them to experiment with the format, but they made it very clear that this was largely in the hands of the players. It was also transparently experimental, which they probably had to portray because they saw how much the players were both impacted.
There is the context that the challenge the week prior to the flea market ,Grant had opted to challenge Ally to be drunk for the full week. Ally would have been thinking about the next weeks challenge of the flea market when they would have been in a compromised state. I think that Ally took this a bridge too far, and when that was clear talked with people they trusted and took a step back.
That said I don't think Grant was focused on just trying to make good TV, and was getting frustrated when Ally had actually gone through with challenges that he thought they would opted out of. Grant also had the only challenge that resulted in a permanent body modification through the form of a tattoo of Ally's girlfriend's name, and had Ally read their childhood diaries as an event at a book store.