'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 works as the story 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 bad* if you briefly mistook NBC's Siberia for another disposable summer reality series. With a cast of 16 “contestants” getting stranded 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

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