The Masked Singer is a reality show that lets you in on the "scam"

The Atlantic

"Many reality shows, competition-based and otherwise, revolve around a soft-lit version of a noble lie," says Megan Garber. "They ask viewers to suspend disbelief, to think that maybe the romance that blossoms along with the roses on The Bachelor really is genuine, or that the rivalries that bring the drama to the Real Housewives franchise are more than merely performative. The Masked Singer inverts all that, because it treats the lies of reality-as-a-genre not as open secrets, but rather as premises. The artifice, here, is the point."

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