You know what’s crazy? I’ll tell you what’s crazy.™
Breaking Amish.
It’s the classic fish out of water tale.
Amish dolts from the farm suddenly staring up at sky scrapers. It’s Farm boys and girls wearing long dresses and big hats hailing taxis instead of tractors.
The Mennonites are wearing classic garb from the old country as New Yorkers gawk at them.
Back on the farm, these wide eyed neanderthals had as much smart phone technology as a spider web on the barn door. Now they are face talking to one another on iphone 5’s.
Damn welcome to the 21st century cave people.
What the hell.
The premise is interesting because the Amish are so reclusive, so misunderstood. And what better way to exploit that polarity than dropping them in the biggest city in the country, where limosine tires roll through hobo urine flowing in the gutter.
Trade in the horse drawn carriage and black smith anvil for a NYC Pepperoni Pizza and a cab driver induced “fah-get-a-bout-it”
It’s like dropping a starving alley cat into a box full of tuna flavored mice.
It’s like catching a bass, throwing it on the dock, and watching it flop around aimlessly, struggling for breath, hoping to accidentally wriggle back into the lake.
And now the show is under fire. Controversy in reality TV? That’s good for business.
Cast members have been promoted as being more technologically deficient than cow manure. But in reality, these microbes of sophistication might be more “linked in” than we know.
Apparently the cast has been caught on Facebook showing off baby’s and smart phones and basically looking like normal American idiots.
Amish liars? Maybe. Good television. Who knows. 3 million people watched episode 1.
Breaking Amish.
The idea is crazy.™