Goodbye, essential humanity, it's been real.
Yes, reality shows. Completely cheap, completely staged, completely shit. The only “reality” is that they take thousands of jobs away from actors and crew.
But there’s hope. Dave Hester, one of the guys on “Storage Wars,” complained to network and production company execs that he wasn’t comfortable with the show regularly planting items in storage lockers. They fired him, and now he’s suing their asses.
I’ve never watched a minute of any reality show – as far as I’m concerned, having an affinity for them should count as a congenital birth defect – so I’ve never seen “Storage Wars” (they should be sued simply for besmirching the Star Wars brand.) But I have to ask: did anyone really think this show was legitimate?
A viewer posted this comment on latimes.com:
“What’s missing from the lawsuit (or the news report) is my belief that they are even doing product placement with the storage locker plants. That expensive electric bike Brandi and Jarrod found recently was a pretty new invention. Seems unlikely a person bought it, stuffed it in their locker and then didn't pay the locker rent for months.
Then, at the end of the episode, you've got the expert singing its praises. Only $4,000! Ha. Wonder if the company paid to plant that electric bike. I assume reality shows are somewhat rigged, it’s all entertainment. But if it’s product placement, it seems like the producers are just rubbing it in.”
Scumbags. Scumbags. Go Dave.
