Texas Ranch House
The US "reality" history shows have been disappointing.
I got hooked on the latest, "Texas Ranch House".
A family is "given" a ranch house, including "ranch hands", all everyday people thrown into an artificial world.
I'd like to see these folks succeed in their endevors.
To "win" the rancher must collect enough wild cattle in two and a half months , sell them for enough profit to pay his debts on the ranch and have enough left over to pay his staff.
I don't know if the producers, of the US programs, try to choose participants more for the drama.
The family they chose to be the rancher's family totally missed the message and point.
It has been a good example of modern metality of independence.
Did the producers intentionally set these people up to fail?
I'd hope not.
The linch pin to a successful ranch is the Rancher's wife.
She took care of the books, mended fences with the hired hands, and ran the house.
Her job was to keep everyone happy.
Our modern family was focused on looking good and letting the hired hands know their place in the world.
The husband was hen pecked and his wife ran the show.
Unfortunately, she lacked the generous heart towards others.
Promises made by the husband to his staff were broken.
When one of the cowboys was 'kidnapped' by the locals, the ranchers were more concerned about the cattle, which they found for free, than the experienced cowboy.
Food was left to rot on the vine.
Sex roles were the focus rather than pulling together to make this all work.
In the end, the ranch fails.
****
The most successful of these shows was Canadian.
Maybe it's the Canadian point of view that made it work.
Two couples were given a full year to build a home and grow their food and if they were still working it after the year, they earned $100,000.00 Canadian.
Both couples pulled together and made it.
The others were British.
Which also seemed to work.
But not us Americans...
sigh...
I got hooked on the latest, "Texas Ranch House".
A family is "given" a ranch house, including "ranch hands", all everyday people thrown into an artificial world.
I'd like to see these folks succeed in their endevors.
To "win" the rancher must collect enough wild cattle in two and a half months , sell them for enough profit to pay his debts on the ranch and have enough left over to pay his staff.
I don't know if the producers, of the US programs, try to choose participants more for the drama.
The family they chose to be the rancher's family totally missed the message and point.
It has been a good example of modern metality of independence.
Did the producers intentionally set these people up to fail?
I'd hope not.
The linch pin to a successful ranch is the Rancher's wife.
She took care of the books, mended fences with the hired hands, and ran the house.
Her job was to keep everyone happy.
Our modern family was focused on looking good and letting the hired hands know their place in the world.
The husband was hen pecked and his wife ran the show.
Unfortunately, she lacked the generous heart towards others.
Promises made by the husband to his staff were broken.
When one of the cowboys was 'kidnapped' by the locals, the ranchers were more concerned about the cattle, which they found for free, than the experienced cowboy.
Food was left to rot on the vine.
Sex roles were the focus rather than pulling together to make this all work.
In the end, the ranch fails.
****
The most successful of these shows was Canadian.
Maybe it's the Canadian point of view that made it work.
Two couples were given a full year to build a home and grow their food and if they were still working it after the year, they earned $100,000.00 Canadian.
Both couples pulled together and made it.
The others were British.
Which also seemed to work.
But not us Americans...
sigh...
posted by karlthebunny at 7:39 PM
2 Comments:
I'm the producer of TRH and NO WE DID NOT cast the series so the participants would fail. They did that all on their own. As a producer I'm gambling that the resolve that people have at the begining will last till the end. No one knows what the stress of being out there will do to people once they are there. I took my best shot.
Thank you Luis for taking the risk and bringing "Texas Ranch House" to PBS.
I very much enjoyed the program, learned alot, and it has given my wife and me a lot to think and talk about.
May your next participants make you proud!
And thank you for answering my ponderings.
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