The audience voting system leads to a phenomenon where many refuse to quit their adulation for the reality personality they helped construct. 

Over the last few years, Indian-origin filmmakers have exoticized and dumbed-down Indian weddings to make them palatable for a global streaming audience.

Bizarre revelations from Prince Harry's upcoming memoir show the mechanisms of the royals' celebrity.

This week in The Buzz Cut: a matchmaker succeeds in making a match, a nation struggles with freedom from an actor, and a documentary investigates why cannibalism is bad.

However contrived, managed, or heavily produced, reality TV offers a glimpse into our own dark hearts -- reflecting our own desires back to us and performing a ritual of emotional purging on behalf of a society too repressed to manage it on its own.

In a political climate as polarized and fraught as today, "Lock Upp" marks a distinct shift in the role and function of reality TV.