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“Is this ultimately a social experiment into what...”

written by Dangerously harsh on 05/05/2007

Good Points
It does do a good job at causing conflict and producing excellent reality tv.

Bad Points
This always happens and does make the programme a bit tedious.

General Comments
Is this ultimately a social experiment into what causes a conflict? To the lesser psychologist, what we have here is a show which aims to push the boundaries of the old social class system and open peoples eyes to the world around them. I feel that it does do this, but we have to be careful. It creates conflict within the two families and while this is particularly impulsive viewing and unites the family, is it the conflict which unites these terbulent relationships?



So let's go to the root of Holiday Showdown and see what it's faults are. Well two families star in one reality tv programme. Well there is a problem already. Stereotypically viewed by the 'chav' culture, a reality tv programme which produces and is a carbon copy of something else. In particular Wife Swap. So lets push past this obsticle and look at the actual programme. Well what do we have: two gobby women, one disfunctional family and one which looks down it's nose at the other family. Great!! The only problem is the 'back stabbing' from one family about another. This is monotonous and clearly leads to the tension. We then get to the end of week one and we hear the usual " If this happens, I will do something". Yep time to get ready for conflict, but oh no we have to endure another agonising 40 minutes of crude television before we get to the big fight which usually ends up with the disfunctional family storming out.



This programme shows what happens when you decide to cut costs and hire the cheapest form of 'entertainment'.

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