MixedBookforumWell-researched, somewhat grueling ... Despite Nussbaum’s gleeful fascination with the genre, she also exhaustively exposes how reality TV made producers wealthy while they exploited their casts and the people who worked on their shows, non-union labor all ... Reality TV is by nature ephemeral; in that light, celebrating it is futile. To do so, Nussbaum has to put down people with higher ambitions, and to ignore the way reality TV started as an experiment in exploiting Gen X in a war of all against all.
Patrick McGiligan
RaveBookforum...[a] remarkable, eye-opening biography...McGilligan’s book vibrates with uncertainty and risk, and it hums with the possibility that talented people actually can realize their dreams in the forms they choose.
