I am apologizing...not for not having kept my blog up to date (although I do apologize for that also). I am apologizing for a new affliction I have been struck with, because surely this can only be an affliction or a mental illness or maybe even an undiagnosed psychosis.
I apologize for watching the television reality show - "HERE COMES HONEY BOO BOO". Not only have I watched one show...I have to admit that I have watched several shows. What I find amazing is that I don't even like television reality shows. I really don't even watch that much television period. I've never been one who could stand around the morning water cooler and participate in the conversation about television shows which were on the night before because more than likely, I didn't see the shows. There are a lot of pop culture television series I have never ever seen and don't mind that I've not seen them. I didn't know the characters on "FRIENDS" or "SEX AND THE CITY" or even "GREY'S ANATOMY" because I have never even seen one episode. I did not subscribe to cable television until after my daughter went away to college a few years ago because I did not want television to dictate my schedule or interfere with my real life activities. In fact, I actually like channel surfing more than I actually like committing to an actual program show.
Channel surfing is how I came across the promo for TLC's reality show "HERE COMES HONEY BOO BOO". When I stumbled across the promo for the show, I could not believe anything so trashy would be on TV in the first place and surely even if the show actually premiered, it would immediately be cancelled after the first episode or at the most, after the second episode.
Well, I was participating in my favorite activity, channel surfing, when "HERE COMES HONEY BOO BOO" came on for the first time. I stopped channel surfing and started watching the show. It was like watching a train wreck. You know how you drive down the road and know there is a car accident ahead because you were forewarned by the traffic announcer? And, you know how you told yourself you won't slow up to look at the smashed up cars or bodies strewn across the road? But, you know how you slow up anyway to gawk at the chaos?
Well...watching the show, HONEY BOO BOO, falls exactly into that category. The show centers around Alana "Honey Boo Boo" Thompson, a 7 year old pageant participant. Honey Boo Boo and her family live in McIntyre, Georgia. Her mom has four daughters, all with different dads. Honey Boo Boo mother's boyfriend of 8 years - Sugar Bear - (Honey Boo Boo's father) also lives in the home. The 17 year old daughter is pregnant and due at any moment. For a couple of shows, there was also a baby pig that served as Honey's pet and also lived inside the house.
The show was so unbelievable, I could not turn away from it. During commercial breaks of the first show, I kept running upstairs to try to get my husband to also tune into the show (he was watching baseball on another TV) because words failed me when I tried to describe the show to him. And, then I would quickly run back downstairs before the commercials were over because I didn't want to miss any part of my show.
When Bobby Brown and Whitney Houston had a television reality show some years back, I remember how incredulous people were that the show was so low class. I actually watched a portion of the Brown and Houston show because I could not believe what people were telling me and the show was so bad that I could not watch an entire episode and never tuned in again.
The show "HERE COMES HONEY BOO BOO" is actually more disgusting than the Bobby Brown and Whitney Houston show was, but I ABSOLUTELY cannot turn away from it. The show is disgusting, appalling, tactless and tasteless. But, apparently, I am not the only deer-caught-in-the-head-light viewer out there because two to three MILLION other people also tune in each week.
I am in NO WAY encouraging anyone to tune in and watch the show. I am still in a state of disbelief that I am actually faithfully watching the show. It truly is a train wreck. It is as horrifying as seeing badly injured bodies strewn along the highway as a result of a car accident. The show is distasteful...and I am absolutely hooked.
It's like that old boyfriend who was positively no good, but so good looking.
I apologize, again. Please forgive me.
Peace
Michele
I've never seen this show and that's okay with me. There are a lot of reality TV shows out now, but there are also some good scripted shows, like The Walking Dead. I love it, but it's gory.
ReplyDeleteI'll take a well scripted show anyday over a reality show. I'll make a point to check out "The Walking Dead". I'm a fan of the old "black and whites" and westerns.
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