Each lesson includes a leader's guide, student handout, and PowerPoint slides.

Whatever happened to all those happy sitcoms like "The Brady Bunch" where a diverse, blended family could come together with nothing worse than a football in the face or too much talking on the phone?

It's really simple: they're just not reality.

Celebrities like Eminem, Paris Hilton, and the like have risen and maintained their popularity is because they are painfully transparent. They may be controversial, but this generation responds to them with adoration because they don't gloss over their flaws and this generation respects that kind of authenticity.

Reality TV – whether it's reality or not – always uses people that they know will provide interesting circumstances as well as outrageous relational dysfunction. Sometimes in reality TV we can see ourselves and identify. Sometimes we need to be able to call what is TV and what is reality in what we see. That's what this series is about.