There is a new documentary called Predators, available with a Paramount+ subscription, and it’s hard not to feel uneasy while watching it. The film tells a deeper story behind the NBC hit To Catch a Predator, which originally aired as part of Dateline on the network, beginning in 2004. As I watched the documentary, I was struck by just how exploitative reality TV was getting around the same time it originally aired in the mid-to-late 2000s, with shows like Hoarders, Intervention, and Celebrity Rehab with Dr. Drew.
