Seriously? OMG! WTF?

Roseanne is back on TV every week on Lifetime Mondays at 9p in Roseanne’s Nuts. Instead of it being a scripted and groundbreaking sitcom, it is a nutty reality show about her. The comedian has left LA and moved to Hawaii where she lives on a farm that grows macadamia nuts. Which is appropriate because it is a lot like what a lot of people think about her.
And the show starts off proving what we think about her as she does a Sarah Palin. She has a pigs that have her invaded her 40-acre farm and she is chasing them off with a gun. That is just the beginning of her nuttiness and each week we will see her get nuttier and nuttier in back to back and I can’t wait to watch it happen.

Then at 10p we get to see moms in action that seem to make Roseanne look sane in Dance Moms. Several moms want their daughters to be dancers and have signed them up for the Abby Lee Dance Company and she feeds in to their hunger as much as she satisfies her own.
These young girls who aren’t even double-digits old are learning how to dance and listening to their moms talk about why they are going through the grueling classes makes you think they are living vicariously through their daughters. As a viewer I was shocked to hear how much they wanted their little girls to do this at the cost of their social lives and youth. As an example one little girl is so sick that she is crying in pain and her mom tells her you have never missed class so why start now, and she goes back to the lessons. In fact the teacher called her out and said to her I know you don’t feel well, so suck it up. She is just a little girl, how can they put dance before her health and well being. But that is just my perception what motherhood and coaching should be about.
Now when it comes to Abby Lee Miller, I wonder if she forgets that she is working with kids. She seems to put them through rigorous training, you would think they were Broadway dancers. She yells at them and I think pushes them further than any elementary school kid should be pushed. Plus you never once see her dance and that could be because I think she looks like she weighs as much as all the little girls put together. To me if she is so great, why have I never heard of her or seen any of her past students on Dancing with the Stars, So You Think You Can Dance or America’s Got Talent? Just saying.
The first episode deals with these poor little girls having only a week to learn a routine that they will be performing in a competition. So you really get to see what they have endure and it is startling.
As disgusting as I think the show is, I couldn’t stop watching it. There is something strangely addictive about it and interesting to watch even though it seems shocking. So tune in to this show at 10p for an hour of entertainment that will leave you dancing on a thin line between love and hate.

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