13-- Fear is Real

A new reality game show is on CW, called "13-- Fear is Real". It's kind of a combination of the show Fear that was on MTV a few years ago and The Mole with a little Murder in Small Town X thrown in.

I'd suggest that you watch it if you liked any of the above shows, but I'm not here to recap it (plenty of places for that on the web already). I'm writing about it because I just read a post on a message board that annoyed me. The poster didn't like the show, which I didn't have a problem with-- people's tastes vary, no big deal. What I did have a problem with was the poster saying how the contestants were all stupid and young, the blood on the walls was clearly fake, the plants and forest looked fake, how when a couple of girls who were being 'buried alive' in coffins weren't actually being nailed in the coffins because despite the hammering there were no nails....

Gee, really? You mean the television producers didn't smear the walls in an old cabin with real human blood (and you can really tell that? Really?)? And you're really surprised that no crotchety overweight 40 year olds like yourself aren't on the show? Shocking. I mean, you'd obviously be so much more interesting to watch on TV instead of the hot 19 year old blond model who is willing to suspend disbelief enough to react to what the producers are putting out there. It'd be so much better to watch someone breaking the mood by continuously pointing out how they know that they're not alone since there's a cameraman with them at all times and that this is just a game show so they know that it's all fake.

*shakes head*