Posted on 09/08/2013 11:18:26 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
"For the life of me, I can't figure out why people are so attracted to our family," writes Phil Robertson. And that was before Duck Dynasty, the Robertson family's reality show, smashed records for a nonfiction cable program when 11.8 million viewers checked out the season premiere in mid-August.
Phil, as nearly everyone calls him, is the bearded, 67-year-old progenitor of the backwoods Louisiana clan that made it big selling duck calls and found its way into millions of other American homes through the previous three seasons of Duck Dynasty.
The A&E network bills the show as "funny, functional, and family-filled." In the realm of reality shows, that's a surprising reversal of the formula for success. Standard reality fare is "friction and fits of rage and four-letter words," as the second of Phil's four sons, Jase, described it in an interview.
It's also a surprising reversal in the story of a family whose earlier chapters weren't so "happy, happy, happy" - as Phil likes to refer to life now. The catchphrase supplies the title of his autobiographical book. In it, Phil recounts a miserable episode early in his marriage to "Miss Kay" when his drinking and all-night partying almost ruined the lives of the whole family.
(Excerpt) Read more at philly.com ...
i watched one show and so so. then i watched three in a row and i was rolling on the floor. some r better than others but i LOVE this family.
Indeed, that particular part of his life is the central tenet of an entire chapter.
Oh man, God bless you.
Well, it’s sometimes after a life of getting taught in the Holy Spirit School Of Hard Knocks that the wrong way won’t work, that we finally take up the right way. And it’s even more about God than it’s about “morality” although the morality will fall in place quickly when we get our God priorities right.
Oh, do teach little children to exalt the Lord, even more than to mind their manners (and THEN teach them that the manners also exalt Him). It will make a humongous difference, to use a word that isn’t found in the bible but sure says it well anyhow.
But the wondrous thing was that the Lord even pulled him out of that spiritual pit. Being a saved Christian doesn’t mean misbehavior won’t happen, but it means also that the Lord has that misbehavior within bounds and will use even it to the good of the saved Christian even though in the short term chastisement will be seen. Witnesses like this abound throughout the bible and it’s one of the things that testifies that the bible is real. The bible is pretty much about grody hell bound sinners who got grabbed by the Lord and pulled, screaming and kicking sometimes, back onto the road to heaven.
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I was using “pride” as in taking pride in the job you do. But I do understand your points.
Mrs Biased and I don’t like the show... I like that those guys are family oriented and self employeed millioniares and have Christian values... but the show is just another reality show and I don’t like it cause reality shows are just scripted and the scripting in this one is worse than most.
Yes, I understand that, however the left will use it and twist it and say....”See? They aren’t what you think they are!”
The left ...and some FReepers as well...ridiculed the show in a similar way by pointing out it is scripted.
And indeed that’s often quite a different pride from egotism. That sort of pride means among other things being glad when it’s done right, wanting to take the trouble to do it right, being bold about how it’s done right. But it is a generous, God connected pride... it would gladly help and show others how to do it right and not care if the others then go on to do it even better because God, not the others, is the standard.
And here’s where the frank, entire story needs to be told from a Christian perspective. “I’m not perfect — just forgiven” is the motto here. Liberals for all their crowing about being nonjudgmental, only shuffle their egotistical judgmentalism around. They will excuse this person but then pour twice the blame on that person. They can’t actually forgive like God can, while not excusing (i.e. insisting that the one who erred let God mend his or her ways).
I really like Phil, the patriarch of the show, he has that backwoods Zen kind of sense to him, and the way he talks.
I do think that much like most "reality" TV, a lot is contrived. I have heard that the family members have really altered there appearance in order to better fit the idea of the show. Also, you hear them talk, and you can tell that none of them are as "dumb" as they might be trying to portray.
All in all though, I like them, and I like the program, just not my favorite thing on TV, but I give it a thumbs up.
I have to ask. What shows do you like that aren’t scripted? Even news progams are scripted.
Agreed!!!
I saw it for the first time last night and thought it was hilarious, and good, and fun. I really enjoyed it.
I saw about half an episode and I didn’t get it either. Just ordinary people doing ordinary stuff. Maybe I should start a show.
I just didn’t like the format see the family do something have one of the bearded guys say something kinda funny...
I just don’t like the show I gave it 3 or 4 episodes and gramma taking a casarrole to a HMA meeting was just a bit over the top hokey for me...
I don’t watch news I get my news HERE!
that is a great idea on a hot day and you don’t have a pool...
Dittos!
News here...yup! Really there is nothing unscripted anymore, even sports.
Meanwhile another FReeper just posted and unitentionally included the word the left will use to attack DD...contrived.
because they are authentic and not clones
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