I don’t watch that one. A little too much contrived conflict. Same reason I don’t watch American Chopper... ever.
I do watch Pickers, American Restoration and Pawn stars.
Every single one of those shows is staged, and situations are contrived. Does it matter? And anyone who doesn’t realize that the shows are phony is extremely dense.
I only watch it for, um..two reasons...Brandi Passante.
I was at the gym on an elliptical and I was channel surfing and came across one of the Housewives show where all of them were at a mud bath. I swear they were all about to go lesbo any second.
of course they're all contrived...imagine driving up on someone's property in the country unannounced and ask to look around....many people would never allow it and might possibly pull a gun ....lol...
I don't think that helper of Brandi & Jarrod throwing an anger fit was contrived. No explanation was given and the others seemed embarrassed by it. Would love to find a link to that and what happened to that guy? I didn't see him on the show again.
I actually did do some bidding on storage lockers when I lived in La-La Land. When I look back on it, I was amazingly spoiled. The bids were fairly low compared to now. It was rare for the bids to hit a hundred bucks. One time only two of us showed up at a storage auction and we agreed to keep the bids low. Like one unit I got for just $10. It had a directors chair and a bunch of jewelry in it. I sold the director’s chair right away for the cost of the unit and the jewelry I took to a club and told the personnel they could pay me for the pieces what ever THEY considered to be fair. I ended up getting about $200 but looking back on it, I know I could have gotten a cool thousand. Oh, and I was upset because I had to go to the “trouble” of cleaning out and removing the worthless junk in the unit. Like I said, it was easy back then so I got spoiled.
I have only seen a few such programs. One was Mystery Diners. The fakeness was apparent from the get-go. I suppose at best, they are re-enactments of something that may have happened; but the footage is definitely staged/faked.
On the Hoarders show, sometimes I feel some of those are STAGED as well.
Pickers drive all over the country to find JUNK, why don't they hook up with the Hoarders show and scavage some of that junk? I've seen things thrown out on Hoarders, that the PICKERs drive all over the country to buy. ROFL.
The next thing you know, you’re going to tell me that the TV wrestling shows are staged, too. I am depressed.