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It's hard to argue with success. If I remember correctly, those early seasons had the best viewership numbers for their time.
For me, it's the basic format itself that's unpalatable. It's not stone cold reality like sports or some documentaries, although those can be embellished, too. It's also not as polished as scripted series. It feels to me as if a network executive put a concept, a soap opera production, and a rough draft of a script into a blender and pressed "puree." It makes so much money that I can't argue that it's not clever. I just can't relate to it. There's probably a bunch of popular stuff I like that other people don't care for, so it's important to be able to criticize something while respecting other opinions.