Work of Art

[Ghoulish Delight]

You think so? I suppose it's possible but I didn't read it that way at all. I think the fact that we're dealing with "Artists", people prone to dramatics to begin with, combined with being on TV, results in a "natural" exaggeration of conflict and melodramatic behavior. I see no need for producers to actively create it. I have no doubt they select for volatile personality types, and perhaps even encourage them to err on the side of drama and conflict, but I can't imagine it takes much more than that to produce this result.

So given that I was already assuming these people to be drama-queens, I saw nothing "phony" about the conflict. He pretty vocally set himself up as an outsider by insisting on having a "signature component" in a group project. Of course you're going to be treated like an outsider and have your ideas ignored after you've made it clear that you don't want to contribute to the whole but that you're more concerned about making yourself stand out. All of course to an exaggerated and melodramatic degree, but isn't that what we all hope to see from tortured artists?