For a short time, I liked to watch TLC's Jon & Kate + 8. It's about the Gosselin family--Jon, Kate, twins, and sextuplets. The kids were beyond adorable, and just the logistics of an activity like getting all those toddlers out the door to play in the yard made some interesting footage. It had a sort of documentary, really-unscripted feel to it.
But I soon got tired of Kate's grouchiness. True, she gets some slack; she has four times the average amount of children at her house. She has a mind-boggling amount of shoes to tie. However, I have never found snippy comments and touchy personalities to be entertaining, so I quit watching. It also seemed that the show was no longer about real-life, but more and more about staged activities. The poor kids' childhoods are starting to seem like one long photo shoot. (You know how your kids just LOVE to pose for family photos? Imagine getting them to do that for three days a week, every week. That's reportedly how much the Gosselins film.)
And that's not even counting all the book tours, speaking engagements, and church appearances that the Gosselins have racked up this last year. (PLEASE, PLEASE, churches...just because someone says "I'm A Christian! I'm on TV! I'll come talk to you!" it doesn't necessarily mean they have anything of value to add to your faith and message! PLEASE use a little discernment here!)
Now here it is a few years later. The kids are older. Not quite as cute. And probably getting really, really tired of the cameras. It's obviously time to either cancel the show, or bring in Cousin Oliver. (Remember? The Brady Bunches' last season?)
I have no idea whether they entertained the idea of actually getting more kids--heck, who knows? They do get an awful lot of money for this. But, I see by the teasers that they did the next best thing: Puppies!! Two of them!!
And now, I learn via internet and commercials, that the season finale is featuring (with an ominous voice-over...."It's all been building up to this" and clips of some especially horrendous marital blow-ups that were aired on the show. Ouch!) some vague big "change" that is "really, really a difficult time for us." In other words, they are wanting us to think that they will be addressing their obviously (maybe edited, but out there all the same) uncomfortable marriage. On camera. On TV. At 7 PM CST. Grab your popcorn, kids! Make it a date-night, Mom and Dad!
All I can say is that the money must be absolutely amazing. The amount of money it would take for me to air my worst marital moments on TV has not even been minted yet, I don't think. How about you?
As for Jon & Kate + 8, hey, it's a free country, watch what you want. But to me, this is starting to feel eerily like the Truman Show.
Cara, Mady, Joel, Alexis, Hannah, Leah, Collin and Aaden are not actors. They are real kids in their own home. Their HOME, for crying out loud. Their home that had professional video lighting/sound equipment hardwired into it. Is it a home, or a sound-stage they are growing up in? (I had to look up their names. Apparently there are Gosselin-iacs who know all the identical faces and their names, have them on t-shirts, and make "Fan-videos" in homage to their favorite kiddo on you-tube. CREEPY!)
Come on, TLC. Come on, Jon and Kate. Let the kids out of the bubble already.
Free the Gosselins!
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I think it's a crime what they are doing to their kids. Talk about pastor's kids living in a fishbowl... yikes!
Agreed. Jon and Kate can not be thinking this through clearly. Do they REALLY want their kids to have a life where every person they will eever meet says, "Oh, yeah... you were the one who threw the temper tantrums all the time!" "Hey, weren't you a little hard to potty train?" "Your mom still think you're the most stubborn one?"
I truly hope that if I were ever offered an obscene amount of money for my kids' childhoods, I'd say NO.
Money must be an amazing thing to make you agree to that.
(There are some rumblings as to whether the Gosselins are even having to follow child actor's labor laws--because they aren't "working"...it's a "reality" show. Scary.)
OK.
Out of other people's business now and back to my own.
(But please...FREE THE GOSSELINS!)
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