trust issues
Okay, so, brief update. I'm currently confined the house (pretty much) while home alone because Mom & Billy are in Gatlinburg and Alisha is over at Katie's (the 13 yr old one) and while I do have plenty to do I am currently watching MTV. This won't last long, just until my dizzy-meds wear off. However, this is not the important thing about this post. The important thing is what I was watching, World of Jenks.
This is supposed to be a documentary-style show where this attractive representation of our hipster generation goes and tries to walk in the shoes of the people we judge. I saw a commercial not too long ago for this where Mr. Jenks gets very close to being beat to death by a gang member/up-and-coming hip hop artist. Sounds interesting, yes? Let me remind you though, this is MTV we are talking about. Aside from VH1 (or E!), this channel is hardcore death of meaning in television with their emphasis on sensationalism and titties.
I'd like to note here that I love Jersey Shore, Rock of Love, My Life as Liz, and Dog the Bounty Hunter. I am not here to suggest that I do not fall prey to the flashing lights and catty ladies...and titties.
Also, when I turn to the MTV channel for any amount of time, I swear that I can smell the AXE body spray through the screen.
Anyway, this morning my options were World of Jenks or The 40-Year Old Virgin, and I chose Jenks out of self-preservation. Today's episode was "The Street Queen" and focused on how Jenks decides to spend a week living with a chubby homeless girl he saw on the street in San Francisco. From what I gather she is about 20. She's friendly, quick to share, and she has a puppy. Jenks apparently thinks she's awesome and they sleep on each others shoulders and play in ponds and yadda yadda yadda. Anyway, near the end of the week Jenks persuades her to go to her real home that she ran away from so he could understand why she chooses to be homeless. The home is nice, they even have a pet iguana (or several), but her parents are drunks and really indifferent to the fact that their oldest daughter lives on the street. The girl hugs her brother and sister that still live there and then her and Jenks gtfo. These are really not the important parts.
The important part is that Jenks defends her to her parents (which falls on deaf ears -- except for the girl) and then buys her a cell-phone that he (MTV) will pay for so she can always call him and so he won't lose her to the streets because they're "friends". She cries, emotional music plays, and Jenks walks off into the sunset like a hero. I almost cried as well, not because of how sweet he is but how I know that MTV is full of shit.
You just have to wonder, that girl has nothing. Literally nothing aside from her shopping cart and puppy and some hardcore emotional baggage, and this handsome (and disturbingly charming) stranger sweeps in with cameras and says he wants to know her and friend her and help her and says he doesn't want "to lose" her in the course of a week...how do you think that is going to affect her mentally, hrm? What attachments is she going to make to her 'savior'? Will the wonderful Jenks feel the same way? How long do you think he will actually answer that phone? Is this a "Oh, I'll charm the unwashed pants off you for a week, fragile girl, and then I've got to go back to LA and finish up my TV show and do rich people stuff. [Looks off into the distance with a forced introspective expression]"
You don't know what happens after that and apparently you don't need to. There is no little update that the girl went into counseling or got on welfare...you just get a clip about how Jenks' next episode is all raw and shit and about MMA fighting.
I just don't know how I feel about this show. Perhaps I'm just biased when it comes to fragile, chubby girls getting falsely charmed by handsome dicks? Yeeeaaaaaaah.
-K