I don't watch TV and most certainly don't follow reality shows, so I am definitely lacking experience to compare this to some other television products. I caught this on TV while visiting some family friends and their kids were having it in the background. I couldn't turn my eyes away from explicit images of nail removal through surgery and similar visual bait for the morbidly curious horror devourer in me.
If the producers focused on the medical professionalism and weird world of foot pathology, I guess they would have been able to win over people who don't have any even remotely related interest (like me) to this field, but their insistence on totally unnecessary personal interactions between the two main doctors made me having to immediately mute the TV when these forced snippets were shown due to extreme vicarious embarrassment.
As if uninteresting and completely irrelevant details from their personal lives weren't enough of a filler, the added focus on scripted, awkward attempts at jokes are so cringey they make me physically clench. It is so unpleasant I became alert to be ready to mute them the moment they are in their office together getting ready to exchange small talk.
Stick to the focus of your show. If you really need filler material to try to reach your mandatory length, you already have a problem. If you put your hopes into two awkward people who are not professional actors to somehow magically fill those minutes with genius improvised jokes, you have even bigger problems.
