Reality TV! What is it? Where does it come from? This week, Lana and Hoodrow overthink the genre America loves to hate. Now please accept this rose or we'll vote your ass off the island. No, I'm not forgetting how that show works, it's pastiche.

Articles:

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2011/05/09/the-reality-principle

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Alison_Hearn2/publication/254111729_Confessions_of_a_Radical_Eclectic_Reality_Television_Self-Branding_Social_Media_and_Autonomist_Marxism