Amish in the City

Wow. What a show! I like to think of it as The Real World: Lancaster County. The show premiered last week and I missed the first show but here’s the crux of it, courtesy of UPN.

“Amish in the City will provide a unique look into the Amish journey of discovery, known as rumspringa, through a group of young adults who have left their spiritually devout, rural communities to experience life in the big city. The show will chronicle how relationships develop and viewpoints collide in a house shared by young people from very different cultures, while also introducing viewers to the intensely personal Amish coming-of-age experience, called rumspringa. From moments serious and significant to lighter and trivial, cameras catch everything as the Amish journey outside their quiet rural areas and are gradually introduced to both the delights and challenges of modern metropolitan life.”

There’s such an innocence about these Amish kids and their introduction to things but I think the show would have been a lot better had they not put them in a house with a bunch of nitwitty “city kids.” For me, the funniest part was realizing that the wildest Amish in the house, Miriam, is a hundred times wilder than I was at her age. So many things we take for granted…fajitas, oceans, concerts…are all very new and exciting for them. The Amish kids seemed to have it more together than the “city kids,” despite the fact that most people would have expected the Amish to be a little more screwed up.

Cool show…check it out.

The Simple Life 2: Road Trip

Wait a minute…they’ve only driven to Texas and it’s time for the season finale? You don’t have to be a Hilton sister to figure out that Texas is only halfway to the finish line in California. I’m so confused but the restraining order Fox Television has forbids me from calling them, emailing them or sending banners over the corporate offices expressing my delight, dismay or crankiness.