Thank you, Julie, you are a breath of fresh air. Doesn’t really matter to me if I agree with all/some/none of what you write, I just love your style. Long may you continue to write for Unherd and whoever else is brave enough to commission you.
Can’t comment really as I can’t stand watching this crap for more than a few seconds. Who still watches TV? 90+ % is formulaic boring dross or absurdly woke or full of presenters with speech impediments. If I want 10 mins of mindless pleasure I can select a video of japanese carpentry etc on Youtube. Not sure how anyone sits down to another episode of moronic TV and thinks ‘this is different!’.
Bulent Acar
2 years ago
Haha. Brilliant. Good to see Julie back on top form.
Am I supposed to care? Isn’t part of growing up accepting that different people have different levels of intelligence and different interests? Thus leaving them to do their thing, whilst you do yours?
Last edited 2 years ago by Ferrusian Gambit
Andrew Crisp
2 years ago
Reality shows (not talent contests where personal skills/talents are demonstrated) were the invention of psychologists looking for work. The participants are willing rats in a maze, often unaware of the manipulation they being put through to produce ‘content’ to amuse the voyeurs. Often the psychs manipulate their subjects to encourage the most base of human reactions for our entertainment. I think it is degrading to the human spirit that has the potential to create great things.
Nicky Samengo-Turner
2 years ago
It make one wants to look up ” making a noose” on YouTube and go and and buy a length of polypropolene rope… before selecting an appropriate chair and beam….
Don’t forget the Tutu, Amyl nitrate, and the Orange.
john zac
2 years ago
TV is no longer a thing but enjoyed article
Terry Needham
2 years ago
Jools is testing my love to the limits. And my love is strong.
Last edited 2 years ago by Terry Needham
Jon Redman
2 years ago
I still think this writer is the one Freddy thought he was signing up when he misheard an offer of articles by Julie Bindel.
“There’ll be quite a lot of stuff about lesbians in them, obviously,” explained Miss Bindel’s agent, “with her being one”.
“Oooh, will there really?” gurgled Freddy lasciviously. “I did enjoyed all the lesbian stuff in that bonkbuster of hers!”
trevor fitzgerald
2 years ago
Isn’t reality TV just a passing fad vs the rise of Netflix and popularity of Game of Thrones or squid games?
Yep, it’s just the Coronation Street for women in their thirties, now. Even on the streaming services, e.g. Selling Sunset.
Dustshoe Richinrut
2 years ago
Reality TV is the apotheosis of the waist-high culture: where the greatest amount of money is made from the greatest amount of entertainment produced.
Surely a busy fast-food restaurant that has a dozen chefs frying away furiously all day is going to produce more ‘quality’ meals that bring in much more dough than a superior establishment run by two award-winning chefs who create incredible quality dishes nevertheless – but far fewer such that the accountants don’t come running in droves to work for their little place.
Dustin Needle
2 years ago
Ah, but Julie even you succumbed to the lure of Desert Island Discs. Your effortless charm wasted on KY as I recall. Sublime closing paragraphs – thank you.
Ian Stewart
2 years ago
15 minutes of ‘fame’ is quickly being enabled by online technology, with kids being brainwashed by these shows into pursuing the career goal of ‘wanting to be famous’, even if it’s just a few hundred followers.
The whole of society is currently a fascinating experiment.
Thank you, Julie, you are a breath of fresh air. Doesn’t really matter to me if I agree with all/some/none of what you write, I just love your style. Long may you continue to write for Unherd and whoever else is brave enough to commission you.
Hear hear!
Can’t comment really as I can’t stand watching this crap for more than a few seconds. Who still watches TV? 90+ % is formulaic boring dross or absurdly woke or full of presenters with speech impediments. If I want 10 mins of mindless pleasure I can select a video of japanese carpentry etc on Youtube. Not sure how anyone sits down to another episode of moronic TV and thinks ‘this is different!’.
Haha. Brilliant. Good to see Julie back on top form.
Seconded.
Am I supposed to care? Isn’t part of growing up accepting that different people have different levels of intelligence and different interests? Thus leaving them to do their thing, whilst you do yours?
Reality shows (not talent contests where personal skills/talents are demonstrated) were the invention of psychologists looking for work. The participants are willing rats in a maze, often unaware of the manipulation they being put through to produce ‘content’ to amuse the voyeurs. Often the psychs manipulate their subjects to encourage the most base of human reactions for our entertainment. I think it is degrading to the human spirit that has the potential to create great things.
It make one wants to look up ” making a noose” on YouTube and go and and buy a length of polypropolene rope… before selecting an appropriate chair and beam….
Don’t forget the Tutu, Amyl nitrate, and the Orange.
TV is no longer a thing but enjoyed article
Jools is testing my love to the limits. And my love is strong.
I still think this writer is the one Freddy thought he was signing up when he misheard an offer of articles by Julie Bindel.
“There’ll be quite a lot of stuff about lesbians in them, obviously,” explained Miss Bindel’s agent, “with her being one”.
“Oooh, will there really?” gurgled Freddy lasciviously. “I did enjoyed all the lesbian stuff in that bonkbuster of hers!”
Isn’t reality TV just a passing fad vs the rise of Netflix and popularity of Game of Thrones or squid games?
Yep, it’s just the Coronation Street for women in their thirties, now. Even on the streaming services, e.g. Selling Sunset.
Reality TV is the apotheosis of the waist-high culture: where the greatest amount of money is made from the greatest amount of entertainment produced.
Surely a busy fast-food restaurant that has a dozen chefs frying away furiously all day is going to produce more ‘quality’ meals that bring in much more dough than a superior establishment run by two award-winning chefs who create incredible quality dishes nevertheless – but far fewer such that the accountants don’t come running in droves to work for their little place.
Ah, but Julie even you succumbed to the lure of Desert Island Discs. Your effortless charm wasted on KY as I recall. Sublime closing paragraphs – thank you.
15 minutes of ‘fame’ is quickly being enabled by online technology, with kids being brainwashed by these shows into pursuing the career goal of ‘wanting to be famous’, even if it’s just a few hundred followers.
The whole of society is currently a fascinating experiment.