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reality with a screenwriter, but nobody's allowed to say so.
means planned or written in advance rather than spontaneous, especially when passed off as unrehearsed.
from from latin scribere, to write — jumped from stage plays to tv the moment someone realized unscripted reality was cheaper to fake than to film.
reality tvmost reality shows are heavily pre-planned, not spontaneous
wrestling termkayfabe means treating scripted outcomes as real
opposite illusionimprov actors script nothing, yet sound rehearsed