Indian Matchmaking: What’s It Like to Look for Love the Old-Fashioned Way?
Netflix’s hit reality TV series reveals how many of our beliefs and practices regarding marriage are time-bound historical phenomena, not unchanging universal ideals.
Reality TV and Our Kingdom of Spectacle
Competing for titles, money, contracts, and (sometimes even) a person’s affections, all for the entertainment of an audience, can cause figurative deaths—devaluation of a person’s worth, the consumption of their soul.
The Bachelor and the Weight of Voyeurism
The Bachelor did what the WWE did years ago—they stopped insisting on the totality of their own illusion.
The Great British Baking Show: A Lesson in Image Bearing
The Great British Baking Show depicts what it looks like to embrace our unique identities and give them shape.
Making Amends: Eve Tushnet on Addiction in Our Time
It turns out that it is possible to write a hilarious novel about addiction. Eve Tushnet pulls off such a feat (along with offering plenty of insight) in her book on a Reality TV show set at a rehab center.
Live by the Screen, Die by the Screen: The Perils of Reality TV
In the end, the problem with reality shows doesn’t come with measuring the moral values of the Kardashians, or the Robertsons, the Duggars or the idol in American Idol. The problem is the rest of us.
CAPC Podcast #21 – ACLU Fights for Bible Reading, Cee-Lo Departs The Voice, Congressional LARPing
Juan Pablo vs. ‘The Bachelor’
The Bachelor finale was uncomfortable because it forced us to acknowledge the show’s shallow view of love and our own hypocrisy.
‘Top Chef: Masters’ Celebrates The Communal Nature Of Art
“The success of the chefs is not based solely on their individual performances; it also derives from the extent to which they have been good mentors and teachers.”
