Farmer Wants A Wife: Harvest Of Shameless
Farmer Wants a Wife sounds like one of those jokes that was kicked around at the time of the writers’ strike, when people were contemplating the sort of horrific reality shows that awaited us in prime time if the two sides couldn’t get together. But it’s all too real, and debuts tonight on the CW.
The latest in TV’s apparently endless pool of matchmaker shows, Farmer Wants a Wife features the requisite handsome (if somewhat bland) leading man in Matt Neustadt, a 30-year-old from Portage Des Sioux, Missouri, who claims it’s tough to meet women and especially tough to keep them interested when they find out you’re a farmer. To that end, ten women, all with city backgrounds, are brought to Matt’s farm and eliminated one by one.
There’s a real social problem hidden beneath the exploitive surface: it actually is difficult for farmers and other single residents of America’s rural areas to meet potential mates, which is one reason why these areas are depopulating. However, Matt’s hometown is not too far away from the St. Louis metro area, so any woman who absolutely couldn’t live without that kind of stimulation wouldn’t have to forgo it if she were to get involved with him. Look for the show to downplay that little fact, however, not to mention that it’s hard to imagine this guy couldn’t find a woman on his own if he was really looking.
The CW has a track record with its competitive reality shows of treating them like glorified sitcoms, which often comes across like the worst of both worlds, as the comedy is particularly witless and the competition so fake that it can’t be taken seriously even by connoisseurs of trash (thinking here of the beauty pageant show Crowned). The promo for Farmer Wants a Wife, which asks which women are looking forward to “plowing” and features an especially groan-worthy pun based on a crowing rooster (use your imaginations), does not raise hopes this series will be different.
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Wednesday 30 Apr 2008 | Gwen | Uncategorized
6 armed police officers to arrest a Mennonite for raw milk? God Damn America! God Hates America, America is Doomed.
Never did me any harm, I pretty much grew up on still warm fresh milk. But then again, our cows ate grass and hay and suchlike, not other cows in pulverized form.I remember a friend once mentioning the 0.001% (or therabouts) milk he bought from an US supermarket.”Didn’t it lose the milk taste?” I asked him.”Dude, it’d lost the milk color!” he answered.I’m OK with pasteurization - it’s impossible nowadays to find out where your milk came from - but labeling strange milk derivates as milk pisses me off.
“Mr. Nolt, released after being taken off by state troopers, refused to accept a ride from them. He started walking. Friends gave him a lift home.”Awesome.
Shouldn’t the citizenry be able to make up its own decisions on what to consume instead of the government? What ever happened to personal responsibility? Its crap how the nanny state government uses our tax dollars to control raw milk and marijuana, but is lax about cigarettes or alcohol. What a waste of our tax dollars.
You’re extrapolating a grand libertarian principle from an instance of civilization civilizing, not government governing. There’s a subtle distinction that most people pave over between the eminently humanizing force of societal betterment and the dehumanizing effect of governmental control.
Oh. I read that as “A Mooninite Farmer is Hauled Away.”
man i feel so much safer now that milk is being locked away as well,</s>
Everyone loves tuberculosis. Seriously, everyone who thinks that all the modern pesterences of health boards are frivolous should try any of the hundreds of diseases they protect us from.Anyone who dislikes the trappings of civilization is automatically a barbarian.
There are many cases of E. Coli outbreaks in which the consumer had no control over the cooking process.