Facundo Gómez knows there is some irony in what he is about to do. There is also the possibility that fate is playing with him. The Mexican television provocateur, who has publicly questioned why audiences can become more outraged over what happens on a reality show than events affecting their countries and communities, is preparing to host one of Telemundo's most unapologetically conflict-driven reality experiments yet. And he isn't backing away from the contradiction.
"My point isn't that people should stop entertaining themselves," Facundo said in an interview with this reporter ahead of Juego de Villanos, Telemundo's new Spanish-language adaptation of NBC's House of Villains. "My point is that suddenly people get so invested in a reality show and show so much interest in what someone says, but while they're changing a law in some country that is changing their rights, they're not mobilizing on social media the way they do when somebody says something that bothers them."
