Showing posts with label reality television. Show all posts
Showing posts with label reality television. Show all posts

Monday, October 10, 2011

Jesus Camp

Last night I watched a 2006 documentary called "Jesus Camp" on ABC2. There are a few "highlights" on YouTube from it but I don't want to post them here. It was very disturbing television.

Some serious brainwashing was going on with the children involved.

When I googled it today, I discovered that since the documentary aired the camp has been shut down.

I think this is a very good thing. I felt really troubled watching the kids being manipulated.

Monday, October 25, 2010

Last night on Wife Swap USA

...a fundamentalist Christian family and liberal Christian family exchanged wives. A woman who idolized home and family with a very annoying husband who kept saying that he was "the gatekeeper" of what his family were taught from the Bible swapped lives with a woman who believed that a full time career was a perfectly acceptable option for a Christian woman while her husband stayed home, looked after the house and studied theology to PhD level.

Nobody was prepared to give an inch on their respective positions, so the only change to report in the end of show follow up was that the male head of the household in the fundamentalist family started to help his wife a little bit more in the kitchen.

The saddest thing was that all of them were so judgmental and unable to see the other side's point of view that they all just ended up looking decidedly un-Christian. Or just plain weird.

Thursday, July 8, 2010

Marion eliminated from Masterchef


Oh noooo......who will win now??

I think I am becoming way too addicted to reality television shows. My other guilty pleasure at the moment is The Bachelor...it's like watching a train wreck but I can't tear my eyes away.