Kind of off topic here folks, but what’s the deal with that Intervention show? It’s got to be the most depressing thing on Television today. They even show two episodes back to back so you get as much prime time misery as possible.
In case you’ve never seen it, each week a lucky Drug addict gets the chance for an all expense paid vacation to Rehab. We get the joyous opportunity to see the pain and anguish of the Drug addict’s family as well as lots of drugs being injected, eaten, swallowed, smoked and inserted. Even episodes that end with the addict going for help and getting clean always have that disclaimer at the end saying “36 minutes after leaving Rehab, Billy Bob was selling hand jobs for hits of Nyquil.”
I’m no psychologist, but is it really in anyone’s best interest to air this on TV? Shouldn’t an intervention be, oh I don’t know, a little more private or something? Hell, I don’t even like people knowing when I have to go Number Two, let alone if I was stealing from the Salvation Army to feed my motor oil habit.
Last week’s episode takes the cake for disturbing the crap out of me. A young woman was addicted to some kind of computer cleaner. Every 30 seconds she’s taking a freakin’ suck off an aerosol spray can! I’ve seen some pretty disturbing imagery in my time (the rape scene in Deliverance, real animal slaughter in Cannibal Holocaust, trailers for Wayans Brothers’ movies) but that episode of Intervention takes the cake. So why the hell did I watch it? My girlfriend, who is clearly a sadist, made me! I guess it’s payback for telling her I spit On Your Grave was a Romantic comedy.
I think most Reality TV Shows are A) complete nonsense and B) completely staged. The cast of the Hills deserve SAG membership for crying out loud. Anyone that thinks the vomit MTV broadcasts is in any way “reality” has about as much brains as Ryan Seacrest has talent. Unfortunately, Intervention is the one Reality show that appears all to real. Sure, it still has the suspect editing and music cues, but that just makes it more slimy. I can imagine some Scumbag producer saying:
“The scene where the mother sells her kids to Michael Jackson so she can buy more heroin isn’t quite tragic enough… we better add in a baby photo montage.”
Listen, I hope nothing but the best for the people that appear on the show. Hopefully they get well and things turn around for them. I just think their being exploited (and not in the good porno way).
The producers of the show probably say Intervention is educational, provides an important public service, and that the show is helping people. I have to wonder; if it was their son or daughter hooked on crack, would they still feel the best way to help them was with TV cameras?
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