I am going to stick up for this show. We watched fascinated, while on holiday in the Maldives last Christmas, as Ma retook her driving test at age 70 and blew cigarette smoke at the examiner and tried to take a can of beer in to the car. We don't get this show in the UK and for once as far as we are concerned, it actually made American people look semi-interesting! Of course it's staged in many ways, but that's what 'reality' TV is like! I think this show gives us, on the other hand, a realistic picture of just how mundane and dull the lives of most Americans are. Finally, whatever anyone thinks of Ma, as vulgar as she is, she still has a large extended family of all the people around her who love her and not everyone can say the same about themselves, can they? Credit to the lady where it's due.
Review of Ma's Roadhouse
