‘Baywatch’ Should Move To Reality

It is a hot summer day.

Children are playing on a California beach, people are swimming or running along the sandy shore, voluptuous women in bikinis are tanning themselves, and lifeguards are watching from their towers.

Here’s where the reality falls apart.

The female lifeguards are all blonde, blue-eyed, and the males are tall, handsome, tanned and muscular.

Welcome to “Baywatch,” where the lifeguards will save a drowning diver, rescue a surfer from a shark attack or administer CPR to an old man who is having a heart attack.

OK, the action scenes of “Baywatch” are somewhat believable, and the rescues are suspenseful enough, but the characters - give me a break. They portray the American stereotypes, and this is not good.

“Baywatch” viewers, especially children and teens, see the muscular men and the “California girls” and think, “I need to look like them.”

This in turn causes many problems for young viewers.

The show is not supposed to be a contest about who is the skinniest or who has the most muscle. “Baywatch” needs to get out of the fantasy section and check into reality.

A show simply about the real-life drama of being an ocean lifeguard would be interesting enough.