Reality TV, Wrestling, and How They’re Closer Than You Think
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There is much more in common between reality TV and wrestling than people realize. Kayfabe is dead, but reality TV was born at its funeral.
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Imagine a kind of television that’s a bonafide cultural phenomenon but one most talked about with derision. A kind of media that plays with the truths and lives of the people on the screen, presenting it as fact but is actually the result of manipulations and scripting behind the screen. All of these descriptors could be for pro wrestling, but they also intimately describe reality television. That’s not just chance. There’s much in common between wrestling, reality TV, and the unusually high number of crossovers like Total Divas, Total Bellas, and Miz and Mrs. It’s tempting to see it as a purely cash-driven situation- a choice to use alternative mediums to promote WWE superstars, but there’s much more to it than that. Wrestling paved the way for the specific kind of "reality" that reality TV is presenting. Kayfabe is dead, but reality TV was born at its funeral.
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