The Masked Singer has made reality TV look more apocalyptical than ever before

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https://www.theringer.com/tv/2022/6/...-floor-is-lava

"Reality TV was created to reflect society back to us through a lens we might not otherwise have access to: 20-somethings picked to live in a house, or 30-somethings picked to sell a house; pretty young things staffing a super yacht, or marketing managers trying to get engaged on a game show; housewives who are neither wives nor managing their households; a group of average people put into a survival scenario, slowly weeding one another out by the physical, mental, and social means at their disposal," says Jodi Walker. "At its deepest, reality TV creates a microcosm of society from which we can learn and grow by watching how specific circumstances change other humans’ behavior. And at its most shallow, it offers the opportunity to laugh when the people go boom-boom on their butt-butts because they tried to jump onto a desk covered in lava inside a fake planetarium. Highly successful current reality shows like The Circle and The Floor Is Lava fall into each of those respective categories, while also creating a new category all their own: shows that people in a fictional dystopian TV show would watch. But … we’re the people watching them. So, somewhere between the colors and the flashing lights, and the former politicians dressed as sassy hippos, I can’t help but wonder: Is something bad coming?"