Spyke
lemm.ee

And the other comment: Police procedurals

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Even Law & Order, which exists within a fantasy timeline where there's actual accountability

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reddthat.com

Early reality TV was fine - whatever that has steamrolled into these day is an abomination.

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It can be funny as like a case study in emotional manipulation by producers.

And then you realise people actually are gullible enough not to see through it and it's not funny anymore.

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smeggerreply
aussie.zone

Yeah current reality is very unreal. Never been a fan myself but at least early stuff had some true trash at its heart instead of the probably scripted junk and attention whores now.

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SeaJreply

Early reality TV gave us greats like our secretary of transportation.

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I’d count “punched up” live audience shows for this category.

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lemm.ee

Mine are, and I'll put them in two separate comments: Superheroes.

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Fair enough. I think it subverts the genre tropes enough to keep it interesting. More so than The Boys for example.

Plus I still get plenty revved up over a good action sequence featuring an indie band I like, like Amyl & The Sniffers (whom it seems Black Mirror just discovered as well)

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