The weight loss in the slimming reality “Biggest loser” would be done at all costs.
When I see the Netflix documentary “Fit for TV – The Reality of the Biggest Loser” I’m not surprised – I’m ashamed.
The American reality series “Biggest loser” was broadcast for eighteen seasons.
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The Netflix documentary “Fit for TV” meets the creator and former of the series. participant.
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I am ashamed because I used to love the program. I liked to see the big participants take out totally in the gym, sweating through their gray t-shirts and sack together by fatigue.
It lies partly in the nature of the program: seeing a major physical change during a season is satisfactory.
But there was something in the tone of the program that made me understand what I would feel when I looked. It was about correcting the lazy morality of the lazy thicks.
The US program that raised billions to the broadcaster is reviewed in the documentary. There, clips from the program’s early seasons are interspersed with stories from participants.
The coaches were free to screaming humiliate the participants in the gym – they just wanted to help change their lives.
The participants would go from a sedentary life to training as an elite athlete several hours a day and it was only good if they started crying or vomiting. It was good TV.
They were subjected to temptations in the form of food: if they pushed monks and pizza, they would be rewarded to meet their family.
It was obviously the contrary to the message of better health and was only for viewers to judge their failing morality.
The producers who come to speak in the documentary think it belonged to the time. They invented the program while they sent it and it was more often right than wrong. A little waste on the road is to be expected, they think.
Among other things, the waste can be counted in the many participants who tell them that they have gained all importance again after the program. Or those I guess must have developed eating disorders of the starvation diet – several in the program say that they only ate 800 calories a day on the advice of the coaches.
But the producers are right in that reality TV looked in a completely different way in the early 2000s. Everything was about receiving help so as not to live a pathetic life. Plastic surgery to unrecognizability, get their house completely renovated, pimp his car, stop being thick.
Receive this chance to change your life, and be grateful. You won’t get one more.
This kind of reality does not fly as well in our sensitive and conscious time. The drop that caused the beaker to run over for the program was when participant Rachel Frederickson stepped out on stage in the final of season 15.
She looked excellent but smiled broadly. She had achieved her goal and stopped being thick.
She weighed 47 kilos.
I think most people who were in the “biggest loser” were really unhappy before and felt better afterwards. Unfortunately, it is not shocking that a 20 -year -old reality series may seem barbaric in our eyes, or that some of several hundred participants over the years feel badly treated.
So I don’t think “Biggest loser” was an evil program. But still, the fact remains that I swallowed their message with holes and hair, together with my mellisms when I watched TV as a child:
A thick person is a stupid and lazy person. Narrow people therefore always have a moral takeover.
It has taken my entire life to question that worldview.
