Worlds Apart - starts October 6
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Sampatsfan

Friday, September 26, 2003 - 04:39 am EditMoveDeleteIP
First of all I'm not sure if this is labeled a reality show or not. I just saw the first episode (On Demand) and I loved it. I just had to let everyone know about it, in case it's something you would be interested in. Because I never would have known about it if I hadn't been searching for something to watch when i got home from work this am. I need to crash but I wanted to post about it before I forgot. Anyway, the premise is they transplant an average American family into a remote culture to experience an authentic lifestyle. In the first episode, The Palmers, a suburban New Jersey family, leave their five bedroom home for a one room goatskin hut in the harsh outskirts of Kenya. It shows their entire journey and nine day stay. There are five family members and they each have trouble adapting in different ways. There's mom, dad, a teenage daughter and two younger boys. I really found it very entertaining and quite touching also. Talk about being fish out of water. If anyone else has seen this program or does in the future, I would love to hear what you thought about it. Thanks! Now I know I have to go to bed, I'm rambling.

Sampatsfan

Friday, September 26, 2003 - 04:42 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Oh, shoot! I forgot to tell you it is going to be on the National Geographic Channel and it begins airing on October 6th.

Surealityjunkie

Friday, September 26, 2003 - 06:33 am EditMoveDeleteIP
The Palmers were on Good Morning American shortly after they filmed the documentary... It looked to be very interesting and I am glad you posted about it. I was planning on watching it and now I can pencil it in on my "all-ready-too-full" reality calendar!

Sampatsfan

Friday, September 26, 2003 - 06:43 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Great! Let me know what you think after you see it. Thanks!

Rissa

Friday, September 26, 2003 - 06:48 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Sounds like a Canadian show, but on steroids. LOL Think it's called Trading Places (not Spaces)... two families from different parts of the country and different social/cultural spheres agree to switch lives for a period of time (didn't watch it all but a month?? dunno). The one I saw had a very upper class oral surgeon, his socially connected wife and two private school kids from the GTO trading lives with a prison warden, his wife and public school kids from the Maritimes. The kids would have to attend the others schools, the husbands took over each others jobs (obviously in a voyeur only way), wives did either the other's job or volunteer and social responsibilities while living in the other's home and living within the OTHER families budget.

Sampatsfan

Sunday, September 28, 2003 - 12:27 am EditMoveDeleteIP
It does sound similar. I have to admit I've never seen Trading Places, I'll have to look for it. Thanks.
I guess the biggest difference between these two shows would be that only one family moves on Worlds Apart. As I understand it, one family each episode will leave the comfort of their home and move into a remote culture very very unlike what they are used to. The kids were getting bored and stir crazy without video games, phones and television. It didn't take them long to get real upset with the situation. While the parents had to adapt to a custom of the wife doing A LOT of work all day long. The women in this society never stop. The husband really wanted to help his overworked and exhausted wife but she wouldn't have it. "I don't think so, that's NOT how they do things here" Another moment involved Mrs. Palmer getting really excited to make the tribe her homemade chicken soup, not knowing that their people do not eat chicken. Also they slaughter the goats for food which was so traumatic for this family of animal lovers. There were a lot of touching moments too. All in all I really liked it a lot.