H8R...HATER

So it was a typical Wednesday night and after hitting the gym I turn on the tube to see if I can find anything worth watching. As I channel surf through crappy show after crappy show something finally caught my eye...A new reality show. My immediate reaction was "great, another new reality piece of sh*t", then I saw "Snookie" on it and almost threw up!....But for some reason despite, my urge to yack I kept watching, and I am glad I did. The name of the show is "H8R" (pronounced Hater), a new show on the CW. The premise of the show is to match up normal everyday people like you or I, who are strongly opinionated or deemed a so called "hater" and have them confronted with and actually have to spend a day with the reality star or pseudo celebrity they hate most. Now this is Reality TV I can actually get in to. Its not set up by  producers hiding behind the scene who get a cast of characters drunk and wait for the fireworks to explode. Its not some corny dating show where a B list celeb is trying to revive their dead career and is set up with 10 skanks and failed porn stars looking for their own 15 minutes of fame.

To me this was real uninterrupted animosity shown between two human beings.  In my opinion at first glance this is what Reality TV should have been from the beginning, instead of what it has become, just sex and story lines. We are made to believe that what we are watching is Reality but its not...its scripted reality. The absolute beauty of this show was that everyone on it doesn't necessarily come out liking the person. In some cases they hated them more than they did prior to meeting them. I'm sure initially its meant so that the celeb can redeem themselves in the eyes of their "H8R" and show their true colors as opposed to what we see on TV, but that doesn't always happen and this show holds true to that. Sometimes ones opinion cannot be changed, sometimes if a person is a douche on TV they really are a douche and its not just some act. Too often in Hollywood every aspect of life is controlled and that's not what real life is. Sometimes the guy doesn't get the girl, sometimes the parents don't survuve the terrible accident and sometimes, the good guy doesn't always win. In my opinion this is exactly what Reality TV is missing, raw un cut actuality, truth and harsh realism. So my hat goes off to the CW's H8R...at least for one episode...and I look forward to seeing more of what this  "Reality TV" show has to offer.

Here is a youtube preview of H8R if it peeks your interest...

Until next time...

VJS