Would you swap your mum?
GEARING UP to Mother’s Day, it may be a good idea to catch the reality show Wife Swap (Mnet, Friday, 5pm) if you haven’t yet given it a try.
In each episode, two families volunteer to give up the wife/mother to the other family, they ‘swap’ lives and all those idiosyncrasies that each family develop over time becomes their problem.
For the first week, the ‘new’ wife has to fit in with the existing rhythm of the host family, then in the second week the tables turn and it is now mum who is in charge.
Instead of a whack of cash at the end of it, the only real reward is for the wives to get back to their families enlightened on how their lives work and for the families to gain a new appreciation for the wife/mother they used to trash.
Sometimes the contrasts are more extreme than in other cases, something I’m sure the producers key in on. For example, in a previous episode a vegan, hippy, tree hugger swapped with an All-American, overweight fan of Burger King and McDonalds. It was more than a little comical watching the holier-than-thou mum try force the other kids to eat ‘proper’ food, and she even had to overcome her own loathing of anything that bleeds which ‘normal’ humans consume.
It’s not the best ‘reality’ show that has ever hit the screens, but it is thought-provoking. Watching Wife Swap may be the push you need in the direction of the flowers and choccies aisle come May 14, the designated day to show your mum that you wouldn’t swap her for anything in the world.
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