Banal Spectacles
Writing about reality TV for The Point Magazine
If you’ve ever hung out with me after a few drinks or, like, have shared an office setting with me (the two are not related!!), you have probably withstood one or two monologues about how I think reality TV is more capable of speaking to our current social and cultural moment than any other media format. It’s a topic I’ve long wanted to interrogate in writing, and I was really happy that
, another reality TV aficionado, let me do exactly that for . It published today and you should read it and also subscribe to the magazine.
I’m really happy with how the piece turned out, and much of that is due to having Jon as a collaborator through the whole process. Editors, folks, they make things better! Give it a read and tell me what you think happened between Craig and Paige and also your most deranged theory about Dorit and PK.