This week the girls take aim at Trash TV confessions...
Who doesn't love trash TV? There is nothing better than pouring yourself a glass of wine and settling in to watch a TV show you know shouldn't interest you and offers nothing to the betterment of society. Don't deny it. You do it too. In this episode, the girls chat about their own trash TV confessions............
But first, what were we drinking?
Bianca was drinking Hendrick's Midsummer Solstice Gin
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Sarah was drinking Brown Brother Dolcetto & Syrah
Available from Dan Murphy's
Amy was drinking Wiley Rooster Rosé
Bianca introduced this week's topic by explaining some of the psychology behind why people love trash TV. There are typically three types of viewers:
1- Guilty pleasure watchers - these types of viewers usually don't like to be considered viewers of trash but find themselves uncontrollably drawn to it. Like watching a car crash basically.
2- Ironic consumption viewers - these types of viewers think that the shows they watch are really bad but still enjoy them as they derive great pleasure in making fun of a terrible show.
3- Camp sensibility consumers - these audiences have a more complex reasoning behind their decision for watching. Susan Sontag (who was an American writer, filmmaker, philosopher, teacher, and political activist. She mostly wrote essays, but also published novels) described “camp sensibility” as enjoying a cultural object that is so extravagant and exaggerated that it achieves a certain kind of “failed seriousness.”
Bianca then dived into some of her favourite trash TV;
Procedural crime fiction - shows like Law and Order SVU and Criminal Minds.
Reality television - shows such as Jackass, Dudesons, Dirty Sanchez, Wild Boys, Viva la Bam and Bams unholy union.
Then lastly the little-known TV show Son of the Beach.
Amy is not usually the sort of person who likes trash TV. Millions around the world love tuning into ridiculous reality, pointless drama, and unbelievable plot lines, but not Amy.
However, there are some exceptions to this rule.
Passions (1999-2007)
Passions is a daytime soap made in the United States of America and is set in a fictional town called Harmony. The show follows the lives, loves, and supernatural adventures of the residents of Harmony.
Toddlers and Tiaras
Toddlers and Tiaras is a reality TV show from the good old US of A which follows the lives of child beauty pageant contestants and their families in the lead-up to pageant day. Take a guess why this show got canceled.......
Extreme couponing
Lastly, Amy discusses a little-known North American TV reality series that follows two people and their attempts to use coupons to bring their shopping bills down from hundreds of dollars to as little as possible (seriously some people spent only pennies!).
Sarah chose to confess to watching Most Haunted. Most Haunted is a reality TV show about a group of British ghost hunters who travel around some of the most haunted buildings in the UK and Europe in order to gain proof that there are really spirits and ghosts out there.
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