What Reality TV Says About Us
Are we watching for the right reasons?
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Episode Notes
On this week’s episode of The Waves, historian and original Waves host, Marcia Chatelain is joined by sociologist Danielle Lindemann to talk all things reality TV. They discuss Danielle’s new book, True Story: What Reality TV Says About Us and why we don’t take reality television as seriously as we should. Later in the show they talk about why women are more successful at monetizing their reality TV brand and how the genre takes us on a tour of the class system.
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Recommendations:
Marcia: The True Crime Obsessed podcast, Let the Women Do the Work
Danielle: The Netflix series Selling Sunset
Podcast production by Cheyna Roth with editorial oversight by Shannon Palus and Alicia Montgomery.
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