Wednesday, April 6, 2011

The "Bad Girls Club"

Essentially this reality TV program, Bad Girls Club (BGC for short), shows a cast of outrageous young women who live in a mansoin together. Seven "bad girls" between the ages of 21 to 27 live with one another for three moths. They recognize that their behavior in the past has hurt not only their relationships but their lives in general. They have a number of problems including personal, behavior, and psychological.


It has been airing since December 2006 and there are 6 seasons of the reality program. It is the first show on Oxygen to reach one million viewers. The girls each have different personalities, backgrounds, sexual orientations, and lives. They must try to live together without violating the rules that they are given before they move into the mansion.



Throughout the show the house is divided into cliques which creates massive amounts of drama.
The girls were given mandatory nonprofit jobs to help them build work ethic. The goal is for girls to work as a team in order to build relationships after the season is over.



On Season 5 a "bad girl" on the show was at a bar when an incident happened. Kristen was drugged from a man who bought her and another girl on the show. She says, "I had no idea wehre I was and had to go to the ER over night. They later discovered someone put PCP in my drink. They can't show it on the show because then that guy could sue for slander. I am honestly really upset they didn't explain that during the show. I think its really messed up how the entire story wasn't shown, whatever. Done!" She also got into an altercation with one of her room mates during the season.


Now, clearly the show isn't helping anyone with their bad habits or their lady like behavior. The show is meant to entertain the millions of viewers throughout the past 5 years. I am not sure why a young woman would volunteer to be on a show that embarrasses you on national television but I guess everyone has their interests. Our society enjoys watching bad behavior, just like the Jersey Shore.

2 comments:

  1. Well... I guess the success has to do with the fact that people are less interested in good news or watching regular people going around doing good things than bad news and crazy people going around and doing... uh... less than respectable things.

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  2. In my area, it's very common for groups of friends to rent houses down the shore together after their senior year, and each group gives their house a name. Ours was "849," after our address (clever right?) but another group's chose "The Bad Girls Club" as theirs. You are right in immediately assuming that these girls have some questionable morals and a penchant for grain alcohol.

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