On first watch I kept flipping back and forth on whether or not this is supposed to be scripted reality. Reading the blurb here on IMDb they are saying it is reality, and UNscripted...
The problem is how much of the reality seems to be massaged. So many of the scenes seem scripted.
I do think a lot of it may definitely be staged and setup and that makes it lose the "realness" of it. A few times throughout I was snapped out of the subject matter by how certain characters were saying and doing things - which felt forced and unrealistic - so much of it didn't feel natural, at all.
They are choosing to tell the stories and show the people in seemingly very clichéd and one dimensional ways. It definitely appears they are trying to setup this "sister villain Bridezilla" thing, and pressing the melodrama for all it's worth, and that worries me.
I do worry about the network and creators stretching and staging this 'reality' into being more melodramatic for effect and entertainment, than a real representation of the family and people therein.
And that's the thing... There are supposed to be real lives and actual emotions on the line here, the stakes are so high that scripting and staging them so blatantly seems unnecessary and untoward. By this point we know that reality TV isn't all that real, but there are some things that just seem more deserving of being portrayed honestly. This is one of them, but sadly the honesty is not there.
They owed it to the subject matter to be more authentic and honest. This could have been groundbreaking and beautiful and emotional. But it just wasn't "real" enough to get me to care.
The problem is how much of the reality seems to be massaged. So many of the scenes seem scripted.
I do think a lot of it may definitely be staged and setup and that makes it lose the "realness" of it. A few times throughout I was snapped out of the subject matter by how certain characters were saying and doing things - which felt forced and unrealistic - so much of it didn't feel natural, at all.
They are choosing to tell the stories and show the people in seemingly very clichéd and one dimensional ways. It definitely appears they are trying to setup this "sister villain Bridezilla" thing, and pressing the melodrama for all it's worth, and that worries me.
I do worry about the network and creators stretching and staging this 'reality' into being more melodramatic for effect and entertainment, than a real representation of the family and people therein.
And that's the thing... There are supposed to be real lives and actual emotions on the line here, the stakes are so high that scripting and staging them so blatantly seems unnecessary and untoward. By this point we know that reality TV isn't all that real, but there are some things that just seem more deserving of being portrayed honestly. This is one of them, but sadly the honesty is not there.
They owed it to the subject matter to be more authentic and honest. This could have been groundbreaking and beautiful and emotional. But it just wasn't "real" enough to get me to care.