As you might have gathered by now the three things I enjoy and write most about is going places, reading & TV shows!! So here’s a second blog on a TV show that is airing currently on star world. It’s called the Moment of truth and it runs with a tag line – ‘is there an Honest American left?’

For those unfamiliar with the show, let me lay out the format….The premise of the show basically is that Participants are asked to take a polygraphic test of 50 personal questions before the show. They don’t know if their answers to those questions are true or false and during the show 21 of those 50 are picked and they are asked to answer them as true/ false. If they get correct answers for each of their questions they can win up to half a million US dollars.  

I’ve seen some episodes of the show and have realized that its popularity is hinged on the fact that participants are washing their dirty laundry in public and who doesn’t love some gory details of personal indiscretions?!  It’s not so much of the viewer greed for gossip and need to pry into the personal lives of individuals they don’t know that bothers me so… it’s the readiness with which participants, for the greed of Money, answer questions that undoubtedly scar their relationships with their loved ones.

They are shows in which participants have agreed to cheating on their spouses, regretting marrying their spouse, hating their parents, stealing money, peddling drugs, Sleeping with over 100 partners and what not. It surprises me that people would be ready to hurt their families and friends through their gory disclosures on national television in order to make some easy money.

It’s not as if these people don’t know that they would b expected to answer these questions. They’ve already been asked the questions…! They come with full knowledge of what they are going to have to reveal and they are ok with it!! And this show is wildy successful in the US. People who have been shared the dirtiest secrets have become like celebrities…. Not only have they won money, they’ve become household names… chat show hosts are asking them to come over and share their dirty secrets in more details. Jeez. It saddens me that people support this kind of thing. Are these lessons we want to propagate to masses and to our kids? It’s ok to say whatever, hurt who ever, as long as you make lots of money!

I cannot think of another prime time show that destroys our social fabric more and yet no one seems to be saying anything/doing anything about it.