Isy Suttie

Oct 8, 2023 | theguardian.com | Bee Wilson |Jim Al-Khalili |Barbara Ellen |Isy Suttie |Allan Jenkins |Alex Moshakis | +2 more

I doubt any reality TV concept was conceived as a mother-child bonding tradition, but that’s how it’s worked out for me and my two daughters. From their teen years and roaming through their 20s, our reality-TV viewing has become ritualised: watch the shows (together or not), discuss the contestants, gossip, preach, speculate, and feel regretful and (in my elder, not-wiser case) slightly unclean. Hey, I didn’t say it was edifying, just that it was happening.