Hear Me Out: Trashy TV Is Actually Good For You

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Arts, Tv & Film, Music

4.4 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 25 April 2023

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

On today’s episode of Hear Me Out… Kim, there’s people that are dying. We can probably all agree that reality shows aren’t exactly peak TV. But there’s a time, a place, and an audience for pretty much everything. In a world where Love Is Blind’s chart-topping run is frequently described as brilliant and awful in the same breath, it’s easy to dismiss this stuff as a product of the social media era. But that’s not quite accurate. Culture critic and podcast host Kristen Meinzer joins us to talk all things trashy. She maintains that not everything we watch needs to be brain food… and that, in fact, the entertainment we hate to love and love to hate might be good for society after all. Podcast production by Maura Currie You can skip all the ads in Hear Me Out by joining Slate Plus. Sign up now at slate.com/hearmeoutplus for just $15 a month for your first three months. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Just a heads-up, this episode contains some sensitive language and subject matter.
0:06.1	Welcome to Hear Me Out. I'm Celeste Headley.
0:08.9	We disagree a lot on this show, but if there's one thing we probably can agree on,
0:13.7	it's that reality TV isn't exactly prestige material.
0:18.5	Some TV and movies are well bad.
0:21.5	We've been having this conversation for a long time from the dawn of the soap opera
0:26.1	to the inception of the Hallmark movie to our fascination with MTV's The Real World.
0:31.6	Recently, it's been Netflix's love is blind in the trashy TV spotlight.
0:36.6	In our landscape of endless streaming options and peak TV,
0:41.1	we still choose to watch the bad stuff,
0:44.1	but could the bad stuff ever actually be good for us?
0:48.1	They are not just escapism, they are not just one.
0:50.6	They are actually important, and I'm saying important with the capital I.
0:54.1	Culture critic and podcast host Kristen Meinser joins us on Hear Me Out in just a moment.
0:59.1	Stay with us.
1:02.1	This is Hear Me Out. I'm Celeste Headley. Thank you so much for joining.
1:06.1	When it comes to one-year-old Ashley, Jeremy, you are not.
1:12.1	Gabby, will you accept this rose?
1:15.1	Yes, of course.
1:17.1	Hi, Diane. Erin came up in the ocean and it's fun.
1:20.1	And there's people that are dying.
1:22.1	Would you stop taking pictures of yourself, your sister's going to jail?
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