Reality show

‘Keeping up with the Kardashians’
‘Keeping up with the Kardashians’ is an American reality show based on the lives of the Kardashian / Jenner family. The show mainly focuses on the daily lives of Kourtney, Kim and Khloe Kardashian. The Kardashian / Jenner family has turned out to be so famous that they’ve almost turned into a brand name, from shows, to modeling, to clothing line and also make up.
Reality show is a genre of TV show that aims to be both real and entertaining. The show involves filing of the actions and behaviors of people in a certain situation that may be either a natural one or it may also be contrived. The way the people behave is usually the main focus of the reality show. Reality TV show is a genre that presents unscripted events that are usually real life events involving either people from the public or even celebrities in that case.
Some of the conventions used in ‘Keeping up with the Kardashians’ are:
- Real people, not professional actors. In the show, the Kardashian / Jenner family are not actors but either models, athletes or socialites.
- The situation that usually takes place in the episodes are supposed to be real. It is usually based on what we may hear on the news.
- It is both real and entertaining.
- The show always has a voiceover where the different characters explain and talk about the situation.
- In my opinion, there is usually a high level of editing that takes place in order to make the show not just real but also entertaining.
One of the main reasons why reality TV shows are famous is because it is supposed to be based on real life events showing the unscripted and real dramas that take place. And when it is a reality show like ‘Keeping up with the Kardashians’ where the audiences are able to see the unscripted lifestyle and events of the Kardashian / Jenner family, it is all the more entertaining. The reality show allows us to enter the life of the Kardashian / Jenner family and like all TV shows, one of the biggest ways of keeping audiences hooked to the show is the part where they show what happens next in the show. They always make it a point to make the ‘Next’ scene very interesting mixing bits of the scenes, or sometimes even playing with the minds of the viewer by mixing scenes making it look like something when in reality it is totally different.
I’ve been watching the American reality show ‘Keeping up with the Kardashians’ for a long time now, but the question is how real is it? The reality show follows all the uniform conventions that reality TV shows usually have, and the show runs once a week for 40 minutes, but what makes me feel like the unscripted show has a bit too much editing is the fact that every episode there is something eventful that happens, be it a fight, a misunderstanding, tears, anger, hatred, jealousy, or any such feelings, and what is more surprising is that by the end of the episode usually everything is solved. Although the events that take place in the show may be real, the way every episode is made to end in a nice note is probably a way fulfilling the audiences’ need of a happy ending.
Although I may be critical regarding the show, I think it is entertaining and have been watching it since the very first season, and having watched it for such a long time, I have watched different people on the show grow, almost making me feel like a part of it, hence definitely making me a dedicated viewer of the show.