It’s the late 1960’s. You get up on a Saturday morning and turn on the television. By the time the set warms up, you’ve already fixed yourself a bowl of Frosted Flakes and are ready to watch four or five hours of television before your parents enter the living room and chase you outside. Go…
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“Amish Mafia” Episode Review: “A Very Amish Christmas”
Time to start rocking around the Christmas tree down in Lancaster County, Pa. And just so we’re all clear… this is NOT what I’m talking about when I suggest having a Very Amish Christmas. ‘K? No, kids. We’re talking about everybody’s favorite plain folk… the wacky tale of folks in Lancaster County, Pa. (and Holmes…
Read MoreJust in time for Christmas… it’s the Amish Mafia!!
Oh boy oh boy oh boy they’re back… this Tuesday night at 10 eastern. You can keep your Duck Dynasties and Honey Boo Boos… But Christmas just can’t be Christmas without Lebanon Levi King Stoltzfus bringing Esther Freeman Schmucker a goat… without Jolin Zimmerman, the moody Mennonite, showing that all he wants for Christmas is…
Read More“The Littlest Angel” – the best holiday special ever!
Once upon a time (and by “time,” I mean the late 1960’s), there were televised Christmas specials that populated the big three television channels in our area – WRGB 6, WTEN 10 and WAST 13. We received the classics at that time – Frosty the Snowman, Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, A Charlie Brown Christmas –…
Read More“Amish Mafia” and domestic violence: when reality interferes with reality TV
It’s no secret that I love doing snark-based reviews of the Discovery Channel’s television show Amish Mafia. I think the show is trashy, I think the acting is ham-fisted and wooden, and the show itself is about as real as store-bought shoo-fly pie. And right now I hope all of you understand, I’m going to…
Read More“Deadliest Catch” and the government shutdown
I love watching Deadliest Catch. It’s probably one of my favorite reality TV shows, in that the viewers are part of this “slice of life” show where careers are made and broken and remade with every haul of Alaskan crab off the sides of gigantic crab boats. Yes, I shed a tear when Phil Harris,…
Read More“That’s not Grape-Nuts, it’s cat vomit!!”
Ah, those wacky morning news reports. Scot Haney has been one of Connecticut’s most popular television media personalities. He’s worked as a meteorologist and reporter for television station WFSB in Hartford, Connecticut for the past fifteen years, and has won several awards and accolades during his time with the station. Haney also owns three cats…
Read MoreTime Warner Cable’s new lineup o’ torture
They’ve sent mesages to me in my mailbox. They’ve robo-called me. And all the time, I thought they were just kidding, that they were just threatening, that this was an April Fool’s Day joke that was a victim of poor scheduling. Then I woke up this morning, and turned on the television. Hmm. Maybe I’ll…
Read More“Amish Mafia” episode review: Judgment Day
So apparently this wrap-up episode of the second season of “Amish Mafia” promises to answer all your questions. The cast members / reality stars of South Central Pennsylvania will sit down in front of the cameras and explain why they did certain things, why they didn’t do other things, and why they’re in a world…
Read More“Amish Mafia” episode review: Sacrificial Lamb
And just as quickly as it arrived… Amish Mafia is packing up the buggies and clip-clopping away. Crumbs. And it was just tarting to get trashy-trashy good. Merlin gathering the filthy armies of the filthy Kentucky Amish, under the guidance of the schwarz Amish Alan Beiler, as they plan to take down Lebanon Levi. Well,…
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