Tonight's TV
Oct. 17th, 2005 11:01 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
apocalypsosNo, I don't know why the hell I watched this show. No, wait, I remember. Because I thought it was Wife Swap that had the one wife having a complete screaming fit and it turned out that was going to be Trading Spouses. And I don't get why I would even bother to watch either show because some of these families are just fucked UP.
Tonight's was just ... *headshake*
Workaholic Mom was this real estate agent, and literally that's pretty much all she did was work. Her husband was a Mr. Mom type and the kids hardly ever saw their mom and she overcompensated by buying them EVERYTHING. Which I have my problems with, but aside from the fact that she was a workaholic, the mom didn't really seem that bad and she acted like she was willing to change.
Hermit Mom was the other one and I'm sorry, but the HELL?! First off, the family had seven kids, none of whom went to a real school (home-schooling, of course, which isn't bad if you actually let the kids out of the house once in a while) or socialized or were allowed out of Mom's sight. No, seriously, NEVER OUT OF MOM'S SIGHT. Not out at night, not out together without their parents EVER. Nine people in this family, and ALL of them shared the same bedroom. Did I mention the two teenage girls? How'd you like to be fifteen and sleep in the same room with your parents?
Oh, and that's not all. That shared bedroom was only when they were living in their house, which they usually weren't. Instead, nine people crammed into a Winnebago all the time. I mean, yes, they're kids, but let me repeat ... nine people in a Winnebago.
In summation, I should not be sympathizing with the Workaholic Mom.
And then at the end, when they were all supposed to have learned something, the Hermit family decided their teenaged daughters would not be stabbed or abducted or forced into sex slavery if they left the house one time, so one of the daughters got to go out on a date. So Mom and Dad scared the crap out of this poor date, Mom told the kid he'd have to kiss her before he kissed her daughter, and then Mom went on the date with them. And when the kid came back from the bathroom, she sniffed his hands to make sure he washed them. I spent five minutes after watching that trying to come up with the most embarrassing thing my parents ever did to any of my dates in high school and came to the sudden realization that "existing" did not quite trump "doing the sniff test on some poor kid after a trip to the bathroom to make sure he made use of the hand soap."
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OH MY GOD I LOVE THIS SHOW.
Seriously, every week it's just so freaking good. Allison's visions just tie together so well that most of them come out of left field and surprise the hell out of me when they do start to make sense, and her children are adorable (especially her chubby-cheeked middle daughter, who's too cute for words), and her and her husband are like puppies. Cute occasionally bickering puppies who are the hottest totally domesticated married couple on TV.
See, this is a perfect example of why I don't read mysteries, though. I never get them until the very end, so if they're hard I feel stupid and if they're easy I feel even dumber. But the way stuff just comes up on this show is so great and surprising.
LOVE LOVE LOVE.
Tonight's was just ... *headshake*
Workaholic Mom was this real estate agent, and literally that's pretty much all she did was work. Her husband was a Mr. Mom type and the kids hardly ever saw their mom and she overcompensated by buying them EVERYTHING. Which I have my problems with, but aside from the fact that she was a workaholic, the mom didn't really seem that bad and she acted like she was willing to change.
Hermit Mom was the other one and I'm sorry, but the HELL?! First off, the family had seven kids, none of whom went to a real school (home-schooling, of course, which isn't bad if you actually let the kids out of the house once in a while) or socialized or were allowed out of Mom's sight. No, seriously, NEVER OUT OF MOM'S SIGHT. Not out at night, not out together without their parents EVER. Nine people in this family, and ALL of them shared the same bedroom. Did I mention the two teenage girls? How'd you like to be fifteen and sleep in the same room with your parents?
Oh, and that's not all. That shared bedroom was only when they were living in their house, which they usually weren't. Instead, nine people crammed into a Winnebago all the time. I mean, yes, they're kids, but let me repeat ... nine people in a Winnebago.
In summation, I should not be sympathizing with the Workaholic Mom.
And then at the end, when they were all supposed to have learned something, the Hermit family decided their teenaged daughters would not be stabbed or abducted or forced into sex slavery if they left the house one time, so one of the daughters got to go out on a date. So Mom and Dad scared the crap out of this poor date, Mom told the kid he'd have to kiss her before he kissed her daughter, and then Mom went on the date with them. And when the kid came back from the bathroom, she sniffed his hands to make sure he washed them. I spent five minutes after watching that trying to come up with the most embarrassing thing my parents ever did to any of my dates in high school and came to the sudden realization that "existing" did not quite trump "doing the sniff test on some poor kid after a trip to the bathroom to make sure he made use of the hand soap."
*********
OH MY GOD I LOVE THIS SHOW.
Seriously, every week it's just so freaking good. Allison's visions just tie together so well that most of them come out of left field and surprise the hell out of me when they do start to make sense, and her children are adorable (especially her chubby-cheeked middle daughter, who's too cute for words), and her and her husband are like puppies. Cute occasionally bickering puppies who are the hottest totally domesticated married couple on TV.
See, this is a perfect example of why I don't read mysteries, though. I never get them until the very end, so if they're hard I feel stupid and if they're easy I feel even dumber. But the way stuff just comes up on this show is so great and surprising.
LOVE LOVE LOVE.
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Date: 2005-10-18 02:10 pm (UTC)I guess that's one good thing about the show. Just by watching it, you can learn that even your own (or at least my own) opinions might need some adjusting.