Victorian Era Reality TV Show? I admit... I Would Watch It! And I did!

Yesterday after I finished some chores around the homestead, tended to my cannabis plants and got dinner prep finished, I sat down to relax for a few moments and turned on my favorite viewing "channel"on the TV; YouTube.

I was flipping around some recommended videos and channels based on my previous viewing and channels that I faithfully watch when a new channel popped into my list. It wasn't so much the channel that drew my attention, but the series that was being offered.

While I'm not one for watching competition reality TV shows (Survivor, The Bachelor, etc), this one definitely caught my interest from the title alone.

Surviving a Day in the Victorian Era (24 Hours in the Past) | Reel Truth History

Video from Reel Truth History Documentaries YouTube Channel

*Synopsis

Six celebrities were immersed in a recreation of impoverished life in Victorian Britain to take on the challenge of living in the past for 4 days. Alistair McGowan, Ann Widdecombe, Colin Jackson, Miquita Oliver, Tyger Drew-Honey, and Zöe Lucker start their first day at a Victorian dustyard, where domestic rubbish was sorted. Some was then re-sold and recycled, such as rags, bones, sieved ash for building materials and "puer"

Now first you have to know when the Victorian Era was (June 20, 1837 – January 22, 1901), and I have a love for reading Victorian (even Edwardian Era: 1901 – 1910) fiction and non-fiction books. And my current genre for reading are about grid down or financial collapse and how people have prepared, stockpiled and become a community uniting to survive.

And I do enjoy watching shows that are based on survival, off-grid living and even shows based in Alaska. I love seeing how people improvise, utilize and use their cognitive thinking to be resourceful.

The above mentioned eras were during the second Industrial Revolution in the US (from 1870-1914), so things were changing from the "old ways" to the new. But according to this series, at the time during the Victorian Era, 75% of the people were working class and living hand-to-mouth.

I would love to see a show like come to TV as a series. Seeing people, even celebrities (can you imagine someone like Kim Kardashian or a Real Housewife Of Whatever City actually do menial tasks for daily pay and living on a two-room house with five others and sleeping on a hay bed? Makes me laugh!

I ended up watching two episodes (which are about 55-minutes long each) and it really made me start thinking about the books I've been ravaging and reading lately about the US' power grid going down and how people were thrust back into the mid-19th century. No technology, no modern day conveniences. No power. No purified water or indoor plumbing.

The six people (celebrities) had to do their assigned jobs every day to earn money for food and shelter. There were no hand-outs (although there were times when one person snatched a carrot off a street cart to eat and other antics to cheat the system). If the people didn't do their job sufficient to their boss' liking, they didn't get paid.

A hard days work for little pay is what happened.
They even showed how men were paid more for the same job the women did. Pay inequality at its finest there.

So how about you... is this a show/series you've seen; or would watch?

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