I’ve watched a few episodes of Sister Wives. The episode where everyone gets Covid was the most boring hour of television in history. I’m confused about why this show still exists when there are no more sister wives. There’s only one wife now, so it’s a show about a boring narcissist and his former wives.
It exists because now it’s the payoff for us fans who have been screaming at the TV for a decade saying “LEAVE HIS SHAGGY NARCICISTIC ASS!!!” and they HAVE and it’s AWESOME. Also there was a plot twist because the sweetest of the “keep sweet” sisters was the one who left FIRST.
Let us have our trash 
If anyone wants to watch Face Off, you can stream it on the SyFy app. I also love the Great Pottery Throwdown, but I don’t think HBO/Max is going to get the latest season.
I confess to watching marathons of Forged in Fire. There’s a sticky slime that sticks to family reality shows that the Discovery Networks can’t seem to stay away from. Even when it starts as reality skill show, it feels like they can’t let it be. I’m looking at Pawn Stars and that show with the father and son motorcycle builders. If there’s no weird-ass family psycho-sexual drama, they want no parts.
I’m reminded of one of my favorite DC reality shows, Oddities. What absolute fun! But the owners of the store did not want to feed the dumb personal dramas these types of shows must have. They tried it in a San Francisco store but the drama was so faked I don’t think anyone watched it.
I’m not sure what ended Oddities, but I really feel like it was because the owners of Obscura Antiques & Oddities refused to play into that crazy, psycho aspect.
That and the one about the Iowa antiques shop started out okay but, as the years went by, it became more and more obvious that virtually everything is staged for the cameras.
I have enough of my own reality, ty.
I want me a nice scripted TV program. Maybe a period drama. A good comedy.
Cut all the commercials.
Pipe dream, I know.
Those type of shows are great. You can’t script animals. They can create drama just being themselves.
I watch Gold Rush and the other gold shows plus The Curse of Oak Island. Blonde folks digging in the ground for treasure. There sure are not many Black folks digging for gold. Oak Island had one Black helper for a season. Lots of drama on some of the shows. “If we don’t get 2000 ounces this year I’m going bankrupt.” Proceeds to keep digging on barren land for weeks and then borrows a couple hundred thousand to buy more equipment. We rip their logic to shreds on the forums.
I’m a fan of “technical” reality shows. Ice Road Truckers (it’s about what the title says), Wrecked and Highway Through hell (both about heavy wrecker companies) but they all degrade into drama after a season or so. I want heavy lifting, not “is the son as big a doofus as he looks?” (ans: yes!). It also “helped” Highway Through Hell that Jaime was really a terrible businessman.
I also watched car rebuilding/customizing reality shows like American Hot Rod and Overhaulin’, both of which started out about the cars, and quickly became about the drama, both external and within the staff. Yawn.
Iron Resurrection started out OK, but again! degraded into grab-ass jerking around. By the end, I don’t think even half an episode was about the car. But, they didn’t go far enough into the drama, because I am still sure the owner’s wife was bangin’ the doofus assistant, but it was not exploited.
And finally there was Garage Squad, which held on the longest as being about the cars, but eventually they would find the most sob-worthy stories, people who had more shit dropped on them than any one deserves, and so - we’ll fix their car! It was like the old “Queen For A Day” show. Milk that pathos! Sad music included!
Plus, the pandemic really brought out what a bunch of dumass trump repulicans they all are, especially Bruno. Though I was always amazed they could find so many neglected car opportunities within a couple hours of Chicago!
No, they’re all on WeTV shows! My god they find the most horrible reality ideas! I see all the promos during Law and Order. I have always wondered if they show Law and Order promos during Growing Up Hiphop and Love During Lockup and Mama June, and if their audience finds L&O equally mystifying! 
Try Wheeler Dealers – 18 seasons and counting! No drama but those blokes make it clear that their show is at least partially scripted; recent seasons have one episode which focuses on bloopers.
I used to watch that drag racing show, usually just half paying attention while doing something else. The contrived stuff has only gotten more obnoxious over the years, but the actual racing is real, and that’s really the only part I care about.