imagine how it must feel like to think that you've been in space, if you care at all about that sort of thing.
now imagine being told by some jerk mugging for the camera that this was just one big expensive trick and that you never went to space at all, you got duped, whatever you were feeling at the time was a total lie, and it's all on television...
that's kinda where it goes wrong, imo, apart from the vacuity and depressing nature of those shows to begin with.
and then in the same article they bitch about "the Swan" being so much more ridiculous...