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'Siberia' TV Show Fake Reality Plays With Viewers' Heads

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'Siberia' TV Show Fake Reality Plays With Viewers' Heads

Siberia is a scripted show, but it's pretending to be a reality show. Called Siberia. There's a fine line between "meta" and "deliberately confusing," but we'll get through this together. There are sixteen (!) contestants on the show 

The fact that all TV viewers recognize the look and style of a reality show these days doesn't mean it facility as the tale line for a scripted drama. That notion, which already hasn't worked several times, doesn't work again in “Siberia,” a new NBC series.

Siberia Premiere Recap NBC Don't feel terrible* if you briefly mistook NBC's Siberia for another disposable summer reality series. With a cast of 16 “contestants” getting trapped in the Russian wilderness, a rugged Aussie host 

Whodunnit? which aired its second episode Sunday on ABC, and Siberia, which premiered Monday night on NBC could be two new breeds of self-aware reality shows, mixing in acknowledged fiction and other well loved TV 

As on reality TV shows, the 16 characters on “Siberia” have broad-sounding jobs — bartender, model, grad student, computer technician — and hew to basic personality archetypes: the helpless nerd, the altruist, the super bitch, and the alpha male who 

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