"rescue tv"

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Watching shows like Bar Rescue, and the shows that help restaurant owners save failing businesses, Robert Irvine, Gordon Ramsey, you know the kinds of programs I am talking about. The shows where someone comes in and basically treats everyone on camera like a bunch of wild animals in order to "save" someone. Or as in the case of "Dr." Phil, treating people who have psychological issues like animals for a live audience to drool over. I dunno if this stuff started with Sally Jesse Raphael, Jerry Springer or whenever, but why do people sit and watch garbage like this and make no association with the kinds of things that happen in our society?

It is like we are devolving into the Roman gladiator days, cheering human suffering as entertainment. All of these tv programs disgust me.

I actually watch Bar Rescue ya got to understand that some of these shows are scripted for dramatic affect nobody is going to watch a 'rescue' show if everybody talks to each other in a calm and civilized manner so Jon Hams it up for the cameras As for "Dr." Phil I think there's an agenda with him he's a by-product of Oprah

I know they are scripted that way and it was Bar Rescue specifically that I was watching at the time I made the post. I just think its shameful that people even think someone pretending to treat another human being that way is entertainment. In real life, tretaing someone like that, especially someone with mental illness, could get a lot of people killed. That is the real "reality"