"Wife Swap" (2004) Series de televisión 2004-2005

Calificación de los usuarios:

4.3/10   

Directors:

Adam Kassen
Sara Mast

Seasons:

1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | unknown

Release Date:

septiembre 2004 (USA)

Genre:

Reality-TV

Plot Keywords:

Non Fiction

Awards:

2 nominations

Comentarios de los usuarios:

For a Reality Show, There is too Much Acting and Posing

US TV Schedule:

Mon. Oct. 13	4:00 PM	LIFE	Haigwood/Hess-Webb	#3.15
Mon. Oct. 13	5:00 PM	LIFE	Lowe/Hamilton	#3.16

Cast

Rick Broider	...	Himself (1 episode, 2006)
Melody Broider	...	Herself (1 episode, 2006)
Lynn Bradley	...	Herself (1 episode, 2004)
Jodi Spolansky	...	Herself (1 episode, 2004)
Hallmark Van Noy	...	Himself (1 episode, 2004)
Roz Bailey	...	Herself (1 episode, 2005)
Paula Downs	...	Herself (1 episode, 2005)
Eric Booker	...	Himself (1 episode, 2006)
Addison Broider	...	Himself (1 episode, 2006)
Jared Broider	...	Himself (1 episode, 2006)
MacKenzie Broider	...	Himself (1 episode, 2006)
Zack Broider	...	Himself (1 episode, 2006)
Zane Broider	...	Himself (1 episode, 2006)
Brooke Clover	...	Herself (1 episode, 2006)
Charles Clover	...	Himself (1 episode, 2006)
Chris Clover	...	Himself (1 episode, 2006)
Craig Clover	...	Himself (1 episode, 2006)
Dana Clover	...	Herself (1 episode, 2006)
King Family	...	Themselves (1 episode, 2006)
Lisa Fine	...	Herself (1 episode, 2006)
Benjamin Granhold	...	Himself (1 episode, 2006)
Bryan Granhold	...	Himself (1 episode, 2006)
Jayne Perkins	...	Herself (1 episode, 2006)
Clark Richard Reeves	...	Himself (1 episode, 2006)
Lori Reeves	...	Herself (1 episode, 2006)
Dee Dee Allemon	...	Herself (1 episode, 2007)
Melissa Johnson	...	Herself (1 episode, 2007)
Alisha Guastaferro	...	Herself (1 episode, 2008)
Karen Guastaferro	...	Herself (1 episode, 2008)
Ralph Guastaferro	...	Himself (1 episode, 2008)
Cat Noel	...	Herself (1 episode, 2008)

Duración:

60 min (including commercials)

País:

UK | USA

Idioma:

English

Color:

Color

Company:

RDF Media

Trivialidades:

In November of 2005, Jeffrey Bedford, a participant on the show, sued ABC network for trading his wife for a gay man. He accused ABC of being dishonest, not allowing him contact with his wife, and making him miss college classes. He claims that when he ceased participating with the production of the show, ABC threatened that it would not tell him his wife's whereabouts and would not pay for his wife's return home. He is suing for over USD$10,000,000.00.

Movie Connections:

Referenced in "The Simpsons: Homer Simpson, This Is Your Wife (#17.15)" (2006)

For a Reality Show, There is too Much Acting and Posing

I've watched a few episodes of Fox's Trading Spouses and I liked some of the episodes a lot. I especially loved the episode that takes a man from Southern America and puts him in a New York city apartment with a very rich New York family. The two families were different, yes, but the Southern man tries to fit in with the new culture and does a very good job. The host family was nice and treated him like a guest. What was nice was the way the host family carried on as normal.

Most episodes of Wife Swap are different, however. Like Trading Spouses, the families are completely different, but the problem is that instead of simply having the wife living with a new family the show tries to start a fight by getting each wife to read some sort of manual about the other family and then after a while to set rules. The wives who swap don't even try to adapt to the environment. They are intolerant of other cultures. They loudly and proudly hold on to their way of life, thinking it is superior, and try to change the other people in the process. I hate it most when the wives tell us at the beginning who they are. You don't learn about who someone is by listening to what they say because their ideals about what they should be will get in the way with what they really are. There's a reason why people buy status symbols like large cars and large houses. They are trying to express themselves and project signals to others so they can be recognized as belonging to a certain social identity. Too many families use Wife Swap as a vehicle to show off their identity. Everything the parents do on the show, whether it is sport or shouting at their kids, is just another weak attempt to conform to an image or a stereotype.

It's not just the contrived conflict that makes Wife Swap so painful to watch but also the fact that you know the wives are posing for the camera. It is so clear these women are desperately trying to show off their identity for the world to see. In other words, they are acting, and that goes against what I expect in reality TV.