Reality TV: How Dare They

The Hills is the grandchild, of the now almost forgotten Laguna Beach.

Laguna Beach was a small surfing village in California with pretty girls and good scenery. MTV decided they should interview teenagers at Laguna Beach High and try and find a "drama group" to do a new teen drama about. They quickly found that group with its ringleader LC. The show started off great with real drama, real people, and real situations. It was great to watch someone else's life and have fun, laugh, and sometimes scream at the TV. Everyone loves reality TV right now, because its real people like you and me on television.

When MTV learned that the public hadn't gotten enough of LC, they started "The Hills". Same people basically, except now everyone was in LA and had "jobs". One huge difference between Laguna Beach and the Hills however, is that now that Laguna Beach had aired, these teenagers had become celebrities themselves with paparazzi and everything. So instead of showing the now "real" life of these teen celebrities. MTV and the cast of the Hills decided to turn what should have been a "REALITY" TV show into a scripted soap opera involving real locations and somewhat real relationships.

The show is just disgusting to me now. I used to love watching the realness of it all. Now they cast people into roles, have specific shoot days. And are creating entirely false plot-lines. So when did the "stars" of the hills decided that they would try and deceive the public and become actors of their own characters. We tuned in because we wanted to watch your real lives. If we wanted actors, we would have hired legitimate actors who are good at faking roles. Not Spencer and Heidi who sit around reading a script about their turmoiled relationship.

If the stars of The Hills and MTV wanted to turn this show around, they would show the real lives of these celebrities. Let's see the paid appearances, the paparazzi, the fighting, the partying. Until then I won't let them have my ratings anymore, thinking they have fooled me into their double life.

- There I said it