Party Like a Rockstar…Or a Wannabe
There are many reality shows that are basically an exercise in rubber necking. You can’t look away from the train wreck. One of the most cloying tactics is when producers try to set up situations to get the participants drunk or in the hot tub. The participants go along with it thinking perhaps that they will be talked about and famous. I remember even on Hell’s Kitchen, there was an awkward hot tub moment last season. I am sure the folks competing go back to the hotel and unwind in the pool, but it appeared to be a set up to see what would happen between two characters with some chemistry, or at least a gal who was trying to befriend the guy’s team. Nothing happened.
There are no strained set ups in truTV’s Rehab, which airs on Tuesday nights. Rather than being a reality show with a staged concept, the party is real and the footage is real. It’s not reality tv, its actuality tv. We are just flies on the wall. The party takes place at the Hard Rock Hotel, and you will meet high rolling guests, and a staff who tries their best to keep things down to a dull roar. Okay, they don’t keep things down to a dull roar but prevent things from going to heck in a hand basket. Most of the folks there would be at the Hard Rock Hotel anyway, rather than having been auditioned.
The whole show makes me want to reach into the screen and slap someone. I want to shower them with etiquette books, and then send everyone back to their rooms. Then I said to myself, “Why the heck am I watching this?” They say at truTV that the effect is “actual,” that I am supposed to have a reaction, and I do! That is called truth in advertising right there. Darn it, they got me again!
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