There is a new show premiering tonight on Lifetime entitled Preacher's Daughters. This whole idea is comical and also scary for a number of reasons.
1. What will the next reality show be? There is already a show that focuses on pastor's wives, one that is about people who make fish tanks for a living and another about people who believe doomsday is everyday. It makes me wonder what kind of crap will be on television in another fifteen years. I get that the reality TV show craze is here to stay. And for the most part, I am a big fan (hello The Bachelor and Biggest Loser) but some of these ideas are just downright crazy. This leads me to my next point.
2. I am a pastor's daughter and I am not convinced that anyone would want to watch a reality show about my sisters and I. Sure, we are funny (actually hysterical) but not everyone appreciates our sense of humor. Besides that point, this show is set up on a stigma. People view the world through glasses that are filled with different stereotypes. One of those stereotypes is what pastor's kids are and are not like. Some people believe we are all crazy out their causing trouble with the devil, while others think that we spend our lives devoted to serving the poor while wearing a halo and a white dress. The fact of the matter is: each PK (pastor's kid) is different and guess what: they are usually quite normal. I'm the exception because I am not normal at all, but that's beside the point.
3. Looking at my last point about stereotypes and then watching the trailer for the show, the producers have obviously set up the show by choosing families that fall into the stereotype. That sounds mean, but I truly don't mean it that way. However when looking at the families that were chosen there is one daughter with both parents as pastors, another father who is overbearing and overprotective and the third daughter is a teenager with a baby. They all fit different areas of the two sided-coin of the stereotype. It's not shocking that these were the families chosen, but it makes me feel exactly how I did when Jersey Shore first debuted. I feel like people get the wrong idea about any group of people while watching a reality show because no matter how real it is, anything can be left on the cutting room floor or added to shed light on an event that didn't really go down the way it was portrayed going down.
It's all going to add up to a crazy Lifetime show. I am not judging anyone who decides to tune in, however I am skipping it. I am offended that I was not contacted by Lifetime (haha) and so I am not setting the DVR for this one.
1. What will the next reality show be? There is already a show that focuses on pastor's wives, one that is about people who make fish tanks for a living and another about people who believe doomsday is everyday. It makes me wonder what kind of crap will be on television in another fifteen years. I get that the reality TV show craze is here to stay. And for the most part, I am a big fan (hello The Bachelor and Biggest Loser) but some of these ideas are just downright crazy. This leads me to my next point.
2. I am a pastor's daughter and I am not convinced that anyone would want to watch a reality show about my sisters and I. Sure, we are funny (actually hysterical) but not everyone appreciates our sense of humor. Besides that point, this show is set up on a stigma. People view the world through glasses that are filled with different stereotypes. One of those stereotypes is what pastor's kids are and are not like. Some people believe we are all crazy out their causing trouble with the devil, while others think that we spend our lives devoted to serving the poor while wearing a halo and a white dress. The fact of the matter is: each PK (pastor's kid) is different and guess what: they are usually quite normal. I'm the exception because I am not normal at all, but that's beside the point.
3. Looking at my last point about stereotypes and then watching the trailer for the show, the producers have obviously set up the show by choosing families that fall into the stereotype. That sounds mean, but I truly don't mean it that way. However when looking at the families that were chosen there is one daughter with both parents as pastors, another father who is overbearing and overprotective and the third daughter is a teenager with a baby. They all fit different areas of the two sided-coin of the stereotype. It's not shocking that these were the families chosen, but it makes me feel exactly how I did when Jersey Shore first debuted. I feel like people get the wrong idea about any group of people while watching a reality show because no matter how real it is, anything can be left on the cutting room floor or added to shed light on an event that didn't really go down the way it was portrayed going down.
It's all going to add up to a crazy Lifetime show. I am not judging anyone who decides to tune in, however I am skipping it. I am offended that I was not contacted by Lifetime (haha) and so I am not setting the DVR for this one.
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