Fame ruins everything it touches
I don’t even know why the show is popular, but I guess compared to the rest of the dreck on TV...
The few times I watched it, I just saw another typical “reality” show, scripted but pretending to be candid and spontaneous.
The fact that they bring family values into it just drags family values through the dirt, not elevating the show.
It has values! They begin and end with prayer. They don’t cuss and blaspheme. They teach their kids traditional values.
They are disguised as a bunch of grizzled Mt. men, but they have a message that America is longing to hear in comparison to the filth of the rest off reality TV!
IRS must have a few undercover creeps watching these guys
I’ve never seen it.
Because the people on it are not trashy; they've been able, thus far,to be true to who they are, even if they do ramp it up a bit, and ordinary Americans relate to them.
There is an episode where one of the wives is complaining about her husband dressing out a deer in the front yard of their suburban home; apparently the school bus came up and several of the children were "traumatized" by it. My wife punched me in the arm as we watched it, because we had the same conversation about 3 years ago; sans the school bus.
I hang out and hunt with people who are exactly like the Robinson's. In fact, we have our own Uncle Si, even if he doesn't appreciate the nick-name.
I agree. I watched about 2 minutes of an earlier episode and that was it. I didn’t the reason for hoopla over the program.
I do recall when the Beverly Hillbillies first showed up, it was an immediate success.
I think it has to do with portraying lifestyles most are not familiar with. The problem, however, is copycats. Even History Channel has found Hatfields & McCoys in the Ky/TN hills.
I just don’t find these kinds of ‘reality TV’ that interesting. TV companies like them because they are cheap to make.
Yeah. I’ve seen about 10 minutes and I can’t understand why it’s popular. Totally scripted,contrived cutesy dynamics and set ups. Only American Pickers, American Restoration and Pawn Stars have anything interesting in them, and they also are rapidly falling into the same traps.It seems that the “family values” thing is the only peg it has to hang its hat on.
I don’t even know why the show is popular, but I guess compared to the rest of the dreck on TV...
its actually very simple, when people get a chance to watch a show that is not antichristian, has some American values, and doesn’t propagandize things like homosexuality, people will lap it up who are starved for it.
its a lesson for those Christian hating producers in Hollywood, but money comes second to people who are trying to destroy the American Christian middle class.
look at the fact that other shows have a dig at old time American values every 90 seconds, and the laugh track goes crazy. how about ellen, where the biggest applause is always for someone who announces she just married her girlfriend.
Beats the heck out of “Here Comes Honey Boo Boo”
It feels like "family" more than like the kardashians and is just stupid good clean fun. I couldn't stop myself from liking it.