I stumbled upon this new show on A&E called Intervention. I recalled hearing something about this show a couple weeks ago, some were arguing that it was wrong since an invention should be private and that these addicts were being exploited. Wait, I'm getting ahead of myself...
Here's what A&E says the show is all about:
"A new documentary series, INTERVENTION profiles people who are losing the battle with their addictions, and whose friends and families feel the only remaining option is to hold an intervention.
Each documentary follows the lives of these addicts, taking an unflinching look at the impact of their addictions on their everyday lives, all the while the addicts are unaware that an intervention is being planned.
Each airing ends with the friends, family and a professional interventionist urging the addict to get treatment. If the individual should choose treatment, the addict immediately enters a widely respected treatment facility."
Sounds kind of like Cheaters, but the cameras are following the actual Cheater or in this case, the addict. The episode I saw featured a gambler and a shopper, although there are episodes that deal with druggies and alkies. What disturbed me about this show is that both parties profiled had backgrounds in entertainment and lived in LA, giving the whole show a feeling of complete phoniness. Gabe, the gambler who is 200K in debt, was a child prodigy who graduated college at 14 years old but who currently doesn't have a job and is wearing his parent's down financially. The shopper chick, I can't recall her name, used to be a regular on the first 3 seasons of ER as a nurse...now she has a laundry list of mental disorders and spends all of her money on material items. The acual interventions had this really odd feel, like the people doing the intervention were forced to be there but didn't really care about the person "in trouble." I don't know what to make of this shit, but I guess the more troubling aspect of this show for me was that it was on Arts and Entertainment TV? WTF? I think A&E needs to reconsider changing their name at this point. They have Growing Up Gotti, Dog the Bounty Hunter, some Robbie Kneivel mess and now this show about addictions. What an odd direction to go in, but honestly who watched A&E before they moved into this forray? I know I didn't.
Sidenote: The shop-aholic chick not only mentions Anthropologie by name in this episode, they film her buying shit there. I'm not sure my employer is aware of being featured in this manner on a TV show about addicitons, but I'm certain they would love the press.
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