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Mountain Monsters (2013)
For Entertainment Purposes Only!!
I give this a 6 because of it's slapstick humor. Even my 14 year old son said that he's going to continue watching it just for laughs. Even he can tell it's fake. It's so funny to me how each episode has sooo much action and these big & old guys can barely run. When they actually "trap" something it somehow "escapes" and they never think to actually place cameras around these traps. The werewolf episode is so silly because they create a pit for a huge DOG. Any smart person knows that dogs dig themselves out of holes. Even though the trap was triggered and the chickens had been dragged out does not mean some large creature was trapped in the hole. The rock probably didn't fall over the hole properly and left a gap and it was probably just some smaller animal after the chickens that was able to crawl right through the gap. Many of these so called monster videos that are shown look like computer-generated animations of furry blobs that were placed into an actual video and some of the heat signatures they "pick up" with the thermal look like people or regular animals. Oh...and the "howling" and "growls" are so fake. I honestly hope that people are not thinking this stuff on the camera is real. I believe that there are real creatures out there, but this show is fake and not giving out true documentation of anything. Another thing that I think is hilarious is that at the end of the program in small letters at the bottom of the screen it says "No wildlife was hunted, trapped or harmed in any way in the making of this program", yet they act like they are hunting, tracking, trapping and killing wild creatures. There's your proof right there that nothing is actually happening.
Catch a Contractor (2014)
He threw in the "M" word!!!
The show, called "Catch a Contractor" on Spike TV looked interesting so I have watched three episodes so far to get a feel of what the show is like. The show features two guys trying to catch bad contractors who are screwing families over. The families they find have usually given bad contractors money up front to do remodeling jobs and then these bad contractors run off with the money without finishing their jobs. The concept of the show is really good, because who doesn't like to see a bad guy get "busted"? However, I find that the show is a tad "cheesy". The main guy, Adam Carolla, is obnoxious and loud. If it weren't for him, I would like the show much more. His friend, Skip, seems like a solid, down to earth guy, which I like for a show of this type. I'm still on the fence about Skip's wife. She seems like she is doing a good job, however, it almost seems as if she is really on the show just for a "pretty factor". I understand this show is on SPIKE TV, so maybe I should just accept the cheesy and fluffy thing if I plan on watching it. This is not HGTV. If I had a choice of hosts for this show it would be someone with a personality more along the lines with Mike Rowe from Dirty Jobs. Adam Carolla goes over the top with sensationalism and episodes feel like a witch hunt with 20 people (camera & staging crew included) ganging up on one guy. I felt like this show was family friendly up until an episode I watched last night (3/16/2014). At the end of last night's episode Adam Carolla threw in the "M" word - about himself - which shocked me and made my stomach turn!! I did not want to mentally picture that nor did my young child, who was sitting nearby, need to hear that! It was thrown in there so quickly and unexpectedly. This is not the type of show for that nonsense. I have stopped liking the show completely! No more of this show for me!