Leah Remini and her Troublemakers Part 5 – Remini technique for passing fiction off as fact

Leah Remini and her Troublemakers Part 5 – Remini technique for passing fiction off as fact

Leah took me to school on what reality TV is and how unreal it is. And I was watching the second reality series, or Aftermath series, I see it takes it to a whole different level. I mean it is so obviously, it is so obviously scripted, rehearsed, acted and dramatized every step of the way that it is a whole new level of false impression.

I spoke earlier about how Alex Gibney pirated from this Roast Beef Productions in the UK. He pirated their format that he used in his documentary. Which was to say, they came up with this idea of, we’ll get witnesses to say things and if they won’t go far enough, we’ll bring in Tony Ortega—who will say anything for a handout—and he can make it sound like the person said something else. OK?

And so they used him inter-dispersed in the film. And then Gibney did the exact same thing. Tony Ortega, who didn’t participate in the book—it’s supposed to be a documentary about the book—didn’t participate whatsoever, is throughout because he’s going to create the parenthesis.

In the Aftermath, they compound the felony because they used the exact same technique except that the producer, director, talent, actor—Leah and Mike Rinder—are doing it throughout. They introduce a concept with a bunch of generalities, then they have somebody say something, then Rinder and Remini jump back in and interpret and throw out more generalities and it is completely and utterly altered, the reality of what the person’s experience was.

In other words, the people who participate don’t even have to have a story, which in fact, none of them to date that I have seen through Season One, has a story worthy of news.

How do I know? Because I knew these people 9 years ago when the news was reporting some of the stuff that was going on in the previous 10-20 years when the news was interested in it… OK.

They didn’t make the cut then. But they are making the cut now because they will say whatever they are saying and as interpreted, as introduced by Leah and Mike and then interpreted afterwards and then bridged to their next comment, it all of a sudden becomes this nefarious, scary thing. And that is the technique that is used episode after episode.