Believe it or not it's actually an okay but pretty degrading show, mainly because of the paternity test shows, the ones that are shown the most often now. Some woman, black or white, is shown talking about how her partner denies being the father of a child or children and the way the video is shown makes the audience get behind her and pity her, but when the guy comes on he rants on about how he's not the father and saying "Shanequa, after this proves I'm not the father leave me alone," followed by him being booed by the audience. Then comes the results, and if he is the father the woman shouts in his face saying "I told you so," while he sits there and plays it cool. If he's proved not which is pretty often, then the woman runs backstage crying or whatever, while the man jumps around, happy as can be, and sometimes the woman comes back on the show after having tested more than 10 men, ending with the same results. Even if it does make you laugh a little bit, this makes both men look bad because it gives the false illusion that men are terrible fathers and women can't be sluts. Well guess what? If some woman comes on the show more than 10 times looking for the father then obviously she's been sleeping around, and yet for some unknown reason the audience still backs her, and seems to ignore the guy who was put through some nonsense in the first place. And the fact that the couples aren't that good looking doesn't help either.
Then there's the segments about teenage sluts who do drugs, beat their mothers, and have sex for the sole purpose of having brain-dead children. These annoy me the most because after watching them, I notice it's always the mothers bringing them on the show and crying, after doing little to nothing to stop them from being trashy and how come they haven't beaten these kids' brains in yet? And plus you never ever see the boyfriends or fathers of these girls and try to hear from them. So then this dude named D West comes on and yells at the girls, which I will admit is one of my favorite parts, hoping to give them a reality check and then making them spend a night in jail, and then the girls are "somehow" redeemed a day or two later. You can tell some of them are putting on a show just to look good and some are actually reformed from experience.
Then there's the less common segments, like the ones where Jack Hanna comes and shows everyone animals, which gets a thumbs up from me because it's educational and I myself am an animal lover. Also, segments where some guy or lady shows tapes of police chases, car accidents, robberies, and other crazy moments are fine by me too.
I don't really watch the ones where people with strange conditions come on because it's kinda insulting to them.
Overall it's not a terrible show, but it's not a good show either, it's just an okay show that's good for some laughs and the frequent "you are NOT the father." Some say Jerry Springer is better, but hey, at least every one of Maury's shows doesn't feature some rednecks who look like they've never seen a comb in their lives.
Then there's the segments about teenage sluts who do drugs, beat their mothers, and have sex for the sole purpose of having brain-dead children. These annoy me the most because after watching them, I notice it's always the mothers bringing them on the show and crying, after doing little to nothing to stop them from being trashy and how come they haven't beaten these kids' brains in yet? And plus you never ever see the boyfriends or fathers of these girls and try to hear from them. So then this dude named D West comes on and yells at the girls, which I will admit is one of my favorite parts, hoping to give them a reality check and then making them spend a night in jail, and then the girls are "somehow" redeemed a day or two later. You can tell some of them are putting on a show just to look good and some are actually reformed from experience.
Then there's the less common segments, like the ones where Jack Hanna comes and shows everyone animals, which gets a thumbs up from me because it's educational and I myself am an animal lover. Also, segments where some guy or lady shows tapes of police chases, car accidents, robberies, and other crazy moments are fine by me too.
I don't really watch the ones where people with strange conditions come on because it's kinda insulting to them.
Overall it's not a terrible show, but it's not a good show either, it's just an okay show that's good for some laughs and the frequent "you are NOT the father." Some say Jerry Springer is better, but hey, at least every one of Maury's shows doesn't feature some rednecks who look like they've never seen a comb in their lives.