Operation Repo

As I have stated in earlier posts, the new baby has my wife and I stuck in doors for agonizing amounts of time. The day we can take her up to Pine Mountain and hike a few miles will be a day I can't contain my excitement. Like most Americans one thing that takes up much of my time while indoors is a TV. We have many many shows that currently are set to record each week. The ones that are currently in a season that we are watching are SNL, The Soup, Tosh.O, The Office, Parks and Recreation, Community, 30 Rock, House, Lost, American Idol, and embarrassingly Project Runway. Thats a lot of TV. If you take American Idol into account that is about 175 hours of TV per week! We are stuck inside so much that this somehow is not enough. We go through movies from Netflix like there is a minimum requirement for the amount of movies seen to get into heaven at the end of our life.

This weekend I found a new show I liked, no, loved. Operation Repo. It is similar to Dog The Bounty Hunter but the people on the show are somewhat less skeezy and the job is somewhat less sketchy. Katherine and I watched in amazement as people became livid over their vehicles being repossessed after they had failed to make payments for 4 months. Words were said, fists were thrown, mace was sprayed, and guns were pulled.

The first episode that first made me question the reality of the show was one that saw the repo group go to a secluded plot of land that was owned by gang members. When the gang members saw them it led to gun fire and the repo guys jumping in the car and swiftly leaving the scene. The camera showed the car drive quickly away. Wait. What? The camera angle showed them drive quickly away? That means the camera crew was left with violent gang members who were shooting with the intent to kill. Okay.

A few days later the episode had them pull up to a home that the guys car whom the were repossessing was parked at. He was a pool cleaner and was supposed to be cleaning the pool. They rang the front door but no one answered so they went around back to check out the pool. When the repo guy got back there the pool guy came out of the house shirtless and buttoning his pants. A woman still in lingerie followed. And then another woman buttoning up her shirt came out. Seemed like something right out of a movie, not something out of a reality show that is in fact based on reality.

I got suspicious and looked it up on the internet. Turns out this show is simply based on real events. They use paid actors to reenact these events and I am sure they don't add any drama to these situations or make up situations! Lame. There is a warning before the show starts that says as much but is worded in such a way that unless you are really paying attention you don't catch on to. I have never been a big fan of reality television and this finished me off. My only question is if this is based on reality couldn't they have found someone who looked less like the love child of Satan, Ursula from Little Mermaid, and Pennywise the clown from It to play Sonia.