TLC’s “Here Comes Honey Boo Boo” Looks More Troubling Than Expected
On the other hand, it’s pretty amazing this network managed to find what is being called a “new low” in reality television.
Honey Boo Boo, in case you’re unfamiliar, is a beauty pageant queen who is around 5 or 6 years old, and has horrified television audiences through appearances with her mom on talk shows and Toddlers & Tiaras. Normally when people look really bad on reality TV — Real Housewives, for instance — I feel sort of sorry for them, because their willful self-exploitation always seems to take them to dark places they weren’t expecting it to. In Here Comes Honey Boo Boo, which is about HBB’s home life with her family on a ranch or farm-type setting that appears to include huge pits of mud, it seems like they’re trying to take their exploitation to that dark place — as quickly as possible.
If you’re feeling nostalgic, as people tend to for everything these days, remember HBB’s Toddlers & Tiaras days in this clip:
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reptarjr 10 months agoThis is what I don’t get about television these days. You have people casted in a reality show. They become memorable aspects of the show. But…television doesn’t seem to want to let that character go. Instead networks make a spin off or a reality show in a reality show. Why don’t we just go back to the times where we had “Where are they now” specials? I’d be more interested in seeing how the kid came out after her stint on a reality show than following her life right after it.
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