Chrisley Knows Best: Show Analysis

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The second reality based television program that I’m going to analyze, is Chrisley Knows Best. The show has been airing on the USA Network basic television station since its premiere on March 11, 2014. When not on hiatus, the show airs on Tuesdays at 10:00 PM Eastern Time. Unlike Keeping Up with the Kardashians, the show has a shorter runtime of just thirty minutes, with a little over twenty-one minutes of actual show time, when excluding commercials. The particular episode that I’m going to analyze is the eighteenth episode of the fourth season. The episode originally aired on September 20, 2016. Chrisley Knows Best has a very unique cast of characters. The show centers around successful realtor Todd Chrisley and his family. This includes …show more content…

In what seems to be a very staged, scripted opening scene included for storytelling purposes, Savannah awkwardly tells Chase that the juice bar only has two reviews so far and they need to do something about it. The siblings bring their conversation home with them, where Todd quickly joins in and suggests that they make their own commercial. He then begins spouting off very detailed, strange sounding ideas for the commercial, all of which Chase turns down, whilst Savannah takes her father’s side as fun and quirky music played in the background. Nothing about this scene, or the scene prior, felt genuine. It felt as if it was more of a reenactment or a dramatization of a past conversation. While this may make for good television, it felt very embellished and definitely not …show more content…

Todd, who had hired himself as the director of the commercial, rented out a studio to shoot the commercial in. This begged the question: If he could afford to rent out a whole studio, why wouldn’t he hire a professional director? For the shoot itself, Todd showed up in what was essentially a costume of what a director might (but probably not) stereotypically wear. His outfit included: a beret, suspenders, and a scarf underneath his partially unbuttoned shirt. Considering that this is unlike anything he’s previously worn on the show before, it was easy to see that this outfit was purely for comedic effect. Chase, Savannah, Grayson, and his Todd’s mother, Faye, were all dressed in goofy costumes of fruits and vegetables. The rest of the scene is mainly focused on emphasizing Chase’s disdain for the situation, no one taking the shoot seriously, and Todd screaming at everyone (Even once through a plastic megaphone). Everything about this scene seemed staged, and the official “commercial” that was posted on the Chrisley Knows Best YouTube channel, uses scenes shot for and used by the show instead of footage actually shot by Todd, showing that the episode isn’t

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