Elliott's Reviews > True Story: What Reality TV Says About Us

My late wife was a big fan of reality television and I was (and am), shall we say, “hostile” (?) to them. I nonetheless have listened to an ungodly amount of Teen Mom and whatever godforsaken sequels or spinoffs there in addition to some of Sister Wives, Hoarders, and a more recent one whose name I forget where some religious fundamentalist family’s daughter gets married to a nice, albeit dorky, guy. My coworkers watch Love Island so I hear bits of that. I have some friends who are big fans of The Bachelor so I can sort of piece together the gist of that show. Even still a lot of this book was unintelligible to me. The author throws out so many references to so many different shows that I couldn’t and have absolutely no interest in decoding. The stuff that didn’t have those references, or was something I was familiar with was pretty good but a little too superficial.