Let's discuss the idiots on Reality TV

[Weezenal]

49 minutes ago, RedRooster said:

This won’t be intentional on your part, but a thread called ‘Let’s discuss the idiots on Reality TV’ feels like an inappropriate place to post about a suicide. 

Yeah sorry I couldn't find the suicide thread. Shout out to Uncle Zeb for linking me to the celebrity topic though.

(It wasn't intentional)

[SuperBacon]

Loved the first couple of series of Hunted (can’t remember watching the last two) so popped the new one on.

Lasted up until the first ad break. Absolute shit. Too many hunters in that room, they’re all shouting about “GOOD INFORMATION” and being smug and there is a new head cunt called Ben. I’m not watching a full series of that ACAB wanker. Shame as it was a good concept, but they’ve ballsed it.

It was never a patch on Wanted anyway.

[Keith Houchen]

If you tweet about it, some of the filth will like your tweet. I know it’s all for drama and that, and they’re probably contractually obliged to help them, but like fuck would I hand them my phone and told them where I dropped my mate if they were on it. 
 

Also, that elderly couple who gave up Mervyn when they said he asked them for a lift to Bristol are clearly tories and voted leave. 

[PunkStep]

41 minutes ago, SuperBacon said:

there is a new head cunt called Ben

He's been in it since the beginning and my god, how fucking detestable is he? What a smug prick. Him and the two gobby girls that are usually out in a car together. 

[SuperBacon]

Has he? I’m sure the head hunter from the first series was older. 

Its too far removed (and at the same time exactly the same) from the first series, I just can’t be arsed to sit through another one. 

[PunkStep]

Yeah this is the first time he's been head hunter, but he's been one of the hunters since the beginning. 

[Astro Hollywood]

48 minutes ago, SuperBacon said:

Loved the first couple of series of Hunted (can’t remember watching the last two) so popped the new one on.

Lasted up until the first ad break. Absolute shit. Too many hunters in that room, they’re all shouting about “GOOD INFORMATION” and being smug and there is a new head cunt called Ben. I’m not watching a full series of that ACAB wanker. Shame as it was a good concept, but they’ve ballsed it.

It was never a patch on Wanted anyway.

It's unwatchable now. Everything about it's so obviously fake, like planting bugs, and searching the houses or hard drives of people who let the runners stay the night. There's a quick bit on the credits about it mimmicking the powers of the authorities, but on an advanced timeline. I'll say. They're digging out CCTV and getting texts from cloned phones within seconds, and tracking cars like they're in some shitty tech-thriller, whenever it best advances the storyline.

In the same genre but brilliant is Sky's The Heist, where a group of people from one village steal £1m between them, and have to stash the money and evade getting caught for 3 weeks. There's a huge amount of investment on the part of the contestants, as they stand to keep 100k if the police don't get enough evidence to 'charge' them, and it seems way more legit than Hunted. The first series had a bit where the gang went all Robin Hood and donated 10 grand to put behind the bar of the local pub, as a way of stopping people from grassing them up, but as it was 'evidence' the police confiscated it, so the pub ended up massively out of pocket, and it turned everyone against them.

[wordsfromlee]

I saw a bit from Hunted the other day. The hunters were on a town high street looking for the bloke who was wearing a white Panama hat. They kept thinking they’d found him but it always turned out to be some other old bloke wearing the same kind of hat. Happened about four times. 
It’s not like it’s hard. Just look for the guy with a full camera and sound crew following them. 

[WyattSheepMask]

Was there a Del Monte convention on in the town? I can’t remember the last time I saw one Panama hat, nevermind 4 on the same day

Edited February 24, 2020 by WyattSheepMask

[Guest]

Bargain Hunt was filming there too. If they'd also been told to look for a cravat and braces they'd have been proper confused.

[Mat]

I can’t be the only one that hoped the sudden messages being exchanged in here was people talking about love island, showing me I’m not the only one on here watching it?

[Rey_Piste]

4 hours ago, WyattSheepMask said:

Was there a Del Monte convention on in the town? I can remember the last time I saw one Panama hat, nevermind 4 on the same day

Maybe a Lou Bega look-a-like competition.

[Keith Houchen]

The fucker wasn’t even wearing a Panama hat. Just one of those outdoors hats you see in camping shops and the like. 

[BrodyGraham]

I barely watch any reality TV but Love is Blind on Netflix has been peak guilty pleasure shite. 

It's basically every dating reality show ever chucked in a blender, but it nails it's stories and provides enough people to root for as well as justifiably hiss at to be a ton of fun.

Could have used a few people who weren't properly conventionally attractive to justify it's premise though.

[Mr_Danger]

In the eye of the beholder and all that but I thought the majority of the blokes and a good portion of the ladies were regular looking folk.

I didn't actually watch it btw. My girlfriend started it and instead of getting sucked in I just skipped to the last episode to watch the I do's/dont's. There's a top drawer reality tv moment for sure involving a shunned bride falling on her arse.

Unfortunately it seems as reality as that WWE Divas show.