I don't know how I could spoil a documentary, but at any rate: This show is proof positive of cable's superiority to network television. This show is amazingly real and extreme compared to ultra tame network soap opera's like the Amazing Race and Survivor. You are never sure whether an episode will end with you smiling and wiping away tears (like the story of the beautiful and talented masochist who tearfully accepted the treatment)with you squirming in your chair horrified at the tragic reality (the child prodigy turned gambling addict who is 200,000 in debt and yet verbally abuses his friends and family at the intervention). I get chills every time I watch this show, one of many great A&E reality shows (Dog the Bounty Hunter, Airline and Caesar's 24/7).
Review of Intervention
