Reality TV is the New French Novel

[Glaurung]

@boingboing

Just as Balzac and Zola’s novels savaged the petit bourgeois of 19th century France, with its inflated self-regard, it’s frivolous customs and status-hunger, so Reality TV shows like The Real Housewives franchise do much the same. Reality TV is the new Comedie Humaine, television as 19th century French Social Realist novel.

Hahahaha, no.

What the hell has happened to Boing Boing that it is publishing self-congratulatory puff pieces with delusions of grandeur like this.