[Artemisia] Re:TV shows - They Got One

[Dawn Tavares]

Raven optimistically volunteered:

>I looked it up, it's on Fox on Friday and it's called Trading Spouses.
>
>info at http://www.fox.com/tradingspouses/ I won't be watching but it 
>doesn't seem like they are painting the families in a bad light.

I pulled this from the MSN.com daily TV listings:

>One mom goes on a luxury vacation in Palm Springs, Calif., and the other 
>dresses up for a Renaissance fair; the women return to their own families 
>and learn the stipulations for using their prize money.<

>From the description the Fox URL gives of the families' personalities and 
values, it looks as if the show is setting up a confrontation between a 
blue-collar military/ horse farming & materially self-reliant / deliberately 
role-playing family vs a white-collar corporate / free-spending consumerist 
/socially-self-conscious role-playing family.

My predictions: The trophy wife will be forced to get horse manure and 
serious sweat under her manicured nails while the ranch wife will be forced 
to match the color of her designer shoes to her expensive lipstick 24/7. 
Both families will look down on the other for living in "fantasyland." Bet 
on a cat fight between the pragmatic equestrienne and the shopaholic 
daughter, and most likely a near-breakdown when the no-nonsense Marine 
criticizes the beauty queen for her physical incompetance.

Both women will come away affirming their usual values but yearning for the 
good elements they found in their temp families (yeah, like that's a 
shocker.) The only real question is who will ultimately prove the villain: 
The knightly dad who runs his home like a mounted fighting household or the 
social-climbing dad who expects his family to present a flawless image of 
conformist American prosperity.

The show is scheduled for a two-hour time slot...which means the show is 
setting up the audience for Big Drama(tm).


Breaking out the popcorn,
Aurora
BLS

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