Here Comes Honey Boo Boo
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- mikotondria30
I watched it, agog at the way the family lived, farting and picking their noses and hoarding toilet rolls, and the little kid, of course, seems the most extreme and uncultured and so on. I watched it half through one eye with the other one ironically observing myself and watching the program as a piece of television rather than entirely playing along with the implied snidety.. I was amused and abhored by it in roughly equal measure. I felt about as exploited as a viewer as it seemed the somewhat rational adults on the program had allowed themselves to be.
Then in one of the little solo pieces to camera commentary of Alana herself, she sneezed and a big goop of snot came flying out and she caught it up with her hand and pressed it to her face, and we all laughed - you would if you were in person there, she was shocked and laughing, and the cameras kept rolling. On and on, it got funnier and funnier, as she didn't know what to do.. it reached a peak about 20 seconds in, then she realised that she was really stuck, and undignified and became self-aware and embarrassed that she was holding a huge gloop of snot onto her face to stop it falling down, but none of the adults behind the camera were going to help, and in a moment, the extended shot became awful and exploitative and heartless. A line had been crossed between rough play and cruelty, and this little girl was sat there with tears forming in her eyes lost, on camera, and the show died at that point. Looking back over it, the parents aren't particularly cultured or good mannered and they're all a bit rough around the edges, but they'd never make her sit there with snot on her face and keep it in the edit. They're good-hearted people whom I would visit or have to dinner, I don't give a fuck if they turn up on 4-wheelers with snotty faces, they all love each other and they realise that's enough, no on can touch that.
The producers of Honey Boo Boo, however, I'd knock the living crap out of them with a rusty shank.- Is your return key broken?CygnusZero4
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- mikotondria30
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