Why is trash tv so popular

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This show is a hit. Beach Club premiered, in January, as one of the top five new cable shows of the —19 season among viewers 18 to This is a surprise only insomuch as the series feels like a throwback to the early s, when so many popular reality shows had no higher aim than to satiate viewers clamoring to watch rich, sexy, sorta-famous or simply exhibitionistic people hook up and antagonize each other. While this subgenre never stopped thriving on channels like Bravo, E!

But in recent months, the exuberantly vapid reality show has shown signs of making a comeback—albeit one tailored to a new generation that values representational diversity. The most clear-cut reasons for this resurgence are financial. Broadcast networks desperate for real-time eyeballs have kept reality competitions from Survivor to The Bachelor alive, despite declining ratings. For Netflix, which has spent the past few years stockpiling original content, developing bingeable unscripted fluff or licensing it from abroad is a no-brainer.