There is a witch, a schemer, a tough guy, a gamine, a salty old timer etc, and there are the very same alliances, ingratiation and backbiting. You can even feel several competitors actively competing to be this season's Richard Hatch. In short, Survivor is rapidly turning into a formula itself. Maybe that's just the way it is now. As the quantity of stories proliferates, the formulas kick in faster, which leaves us like oil explorers, searching for the next gusher, only to pump it dry as soon as we find it.
Reality programming is today's gusher, helping solve the narrative crisis.
But it probably won't be long before it seems as hoary and duplicitous as the conventional narratives it replaced. The Age Company Ltd 2001. Any unauthorised use, copying or mirroring is prohibited.