This post by Alice B, about the Israeli version of Big Brother, goes a long way to explaining what I am also on about here. I find most reality TV shows to be never ending excruciation myself, so I mostly don't watch them. But I don't despise them. And I completely agree that you'll never get politics if all you ever obsess about is politics:

I am constantly raging on about how political pundits only look at politics and ignore the zeitgeist. The zeitgeist is what really matters, when you want to understand a culture, and it's all around and also in the mainstream.

On the other hand, I do genuinely love this kind of thing, which is the same very approximate principle I think, but expressing itself a little differently, and I guess not quite in the mainstream. But this is also a very (in the deep and philosophical sense) political statement, I think, by Mr Wheely Man.