🎭 Culture Jun 2, 2026 · Samantha Allen

Shakespeare and Reality Televison Really Aren’t That Different

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Shakespeare and Reality Televison Really Aren’t That Different
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When the first massively popular reality TV shows hit the air in the early 2000s, I remember thinking in my naïveté: Surely this is just a passing fad. I was entering my teens and, like so many closeted queer youth before me, was beginning to form an intense fixation on media. Predicting that Survivor and The Bachelor would only last a few seasons became my way of establishing myself as a sophisticated observer of the landscape. To whom, you might ask? Mostly to the adults who came over for dinn

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