Physical 100 made me want to be Korean. They’re all so nice, and supportive, and genuinely rooting for each other. Even at the final with loads of money at stake.
I have only seen a couple of mean/annoying people so far and I think they might be knocked out by now (I have only just finished the sand bridge thing). Low point was the guy who chose a woman to go one on one with and then taunted her, never gave her the respect of a straight up game.
I must have missed the tik tok guy being knocked out too. . . he seemed like a bit of a twat.
In nearly all UK reality shows we have come to expect everyone being horrible to each other. Sadly this is usually because it's what the show creators think we want (or think is entertainment). From my experience of making TV all of this is manufactured / manipulated. When come dine with me first started it was a genuinely nice and gentle show about amateur cooking enthusiasts who met up with other like minded people in the local area. They all had a generally positive experience, encouraged each other and stayed friends after the show. . . somewhere along the line the cooking went out the window and people were cast as 'characters' to rub each other up the wrong way. On site producers were bullied into stirring things up on location, filming was edited to make things look even worse. I genuinely used to like come dine, it was a gentle, positive uplifting show, but it later became so toxic that it was unbearable to watch. Same can be said of Big Brother etc. It really was an interesting social experiment for the first series at least.
It's sad that toxicity is what we have come to expect to see when people interact on reality TV, it's disappointing that this is what we have come to associate with competitive entertainment. It probably does have an effect on peoples attitudes in real life to some extent. Whatever happened to sportsmanship?
Hopefully we will see more shows like Physical 100, (which despite still being clearly quite carefully stage managed in some areas,) highlights positive competitive human interactions.
Side note . . . I still can't get over what an absolute bastard it must be to edit. Everyone has a microphone, there are a crazy amount of cameras and sound to sync / trawl through. . . then they have clearly shot interviews for all contestants before each event, and after each event. All of these are pepperd throughout while the action takes place. I'd love to see a behind the scenes documentary.
