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Originally Posted by SlackDad
Can someone please explain to me what the attraction of Big Brother is so I can try and understand. Other than the first series, which was interesting on the grounds that the contestants did not know what to expect or even whether many people were that interested in it, and so worked as a quasi-social experiment, I can see no enjoyment in watching a group of attention seeking individuals attempt to out do each other for the largest red top pay check or pointless presenter post.
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It's legitimised voyeurism. It's a freak show for the 21st century. It allows insecure people to watch a houseful of lunatics disgracing themselves, and to think, 'no matter how bad things are for me, at least I'm not as ****ed up as that lot.'
I think it's about time C4 dropped the fig leaf that is the weekly 'psych' show and just admitted that the programme is about getting a roomful of people to be drunk, abusive and sexually deviant towards each other. Let's not forget, last series one of the psych consultants walked off the show after accusing the producers of setting out to create a confrontational situation that could become dangerous (the secret room, IIRC, which did indeed lead to trouble when a couple of housemates were allowed back in).