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Originally Posted by Zizu

To what end .. how does keeping them bored stiff make for a better viewer experience ?

One of the highlights for me was in one of the earlier series where they had a home made ping pong competition using frying pans and rolled up tinfoil or something

This has nothing to do with keeping real world news from them.

They can generate their own conversations. That's sorta the whole point of the show. Isolation. People creating their own drama and conversation.