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post #1 of 12
6/18/09 at 2:09am
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Is anyone else addicted to this show? My sister got me hooked on it a while back and I can't stop watching them. Allison the duster sucker is a classic episode, but the saddest one to me was this rich woman named Laney who was basically drinking herself to death. She actually ODed on sleeping pills on the show (the producer and camera crew got to her just as she was swallowing the pills) and then claimed that she'd been drugged. She found out about the intervention beforehand and her family basically had a standoff at her house all day long. The depths of self-destruction that these people sink to is really scary, fascinating stuff.

Truth be told, A&E in general is fantastic. Biography, The First 48, Manhunters, Cold Case Files, it goes on and on.
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post #2 of 12
6/18/09 at 9:50pm
Have you watched Obsessed yet? It just started a couple of weeks ago on A&E and I find it to be an interesting companion to Intervention. The show focuses on people with OCD and is quite unnerving. I thinking mostly of the woman who would wear her deceased father's clothes.
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post #3 of 12
6/18/09 at 10:02pm
I wear my Dads old leather jacket... Doesn't sound that horrible.
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post #4 of 12
6/19/09 at 3:52am
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I wear my Dads old leather jacket... Doesn't sound that horrible.
This woman wears the BLOODY CLOTHES that her father was wearing when he died in a car wreck.
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post #5 of 12
6/19/09 at 11:31am
I've watched the show, but hardly interested in seeing it again. Before I put my mom into a clinic for alcohol and prescription drug abuse a friend that worked for that clinic had me watch the show a bunch. All it did was make me want to kill myself. Living it is enough, don't need to watch it for recreation too.
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post #6 of 12
7/13/10 at 2:20am
I just happened upon the episode with the best cry ever. I've seen every remix ever made (ok I've seen a lot of them), but man in the context of the episode that scene is freaking heartbreaking. This guy is Rocky Lockridge, a two-time World Champion Lightweight Boxer who became addicted to crack for upwards of 10 years. His elder son never forgave him for leaving the family and barely agreed to be part of the show. So when he told his dad he still loved him, that was the impetus for the cry heard round the world. I've seen a bunch of these shows and nothing has been even remotely as emotionally gut-wrenching as this. That said, I'll still laugh at those memes.

Oh, and Allison cleaned up nice. Caught a bit of a special on dusting and she was there giving her take on the whole phenomenon. I cannot believe she has any brain cells left but she was lucid and coherent. A lot of people aren't so lucky.
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post #7 of 12
7/13/10 at 3:02pm
Between Intervention, Obsessed, Hoarders, and The First 48, A&E is really cornering the whole "human misery as entertainment" angle. Me and the girlfriend PVR Intervention and the First 48 and I can't watch them back to back. I have to turn on Wipeout or something just for a mental sorbet.

Intervention is a compelling show even if it is a tad formulaic. I can't quite shake the voyeuristic sense that it gives me, and my reactions to the stories usually run the gamut from utter disgust (the gambling addict failed hollywood kid with the grotesque sense of entitlement who had basically bankrupted his parents) to real sympathy. The ones who have gone through bad military tours or horrific abuse for example... you hear their stories and you understand why they would self-medicate.
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post #8 of 12
7/13/10 at 3:16pm
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Is anyone else addicted to this show? My sister got me hooked on it a while back and I can't stop watching them.
Awesome choice of words, heh.

I find it eerily hypnotic as well. I once watched an episode while incredibly drunk. I don't recommend that.
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post #9 of 12
7/13/10 at 3:26pm
I was going to pop in and mention the duster sucker as soon as I saw this thread, but alas that was taken care of in the first post. Until then I had never even heard of such an addiction and it's still one of the most batshit things I've seen on tv. I wonder if in a high stupor she ever turned the can upside down and did it? I always forget about this show and can't remember what night it comes on, but I need to catch up with it again. I agree with CountZero on my reaction to the show though... a lot of the time it's disgust/disbelief/and rage at the stupidity and behavior of the addicts, and sorrow for the people they are affecting. While I know I should be sympathetic to the addicts, it's really hard for me to do while watching the few episodes I've seen.
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post #10 of 12
7/13/10 at 3:28pm
Caught a few episodes of Obsessed. One guy had a crazy reaction to El Caminos because when he was a kid a friend told him they were dirty*. If he hears the word he starts obsessively washing his hands and god forbid he sees one. I think the show purposely had one pass by him because there wasn't one in sight and as soon as he talks about his fear, an El Camino passes by and he literally jumps out of his skin he gets so scared.


* What kind of fucked up racist friends did he have?
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post #11 of 12
7/13/10 at 3:32pm
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I was going to pop in and mention the duster sucker as soon as I saw this thread, but alas that was taken care of in the first post. Until then I had never even heard of such an addiction and it's still one of the most batshit things I've seen on tv. I wonder if in a high stupor she ever turned the can upside down and did it? I always forget about this show and can't remember what night it comes on, but I need to catch up with it again. I agree with CountZero on my reaction to the show though... a lot of the time it's disgust/disbelief/and rage at the stupidity and behavior of the addicts, and sorrow for the people they are affecting. While I know I should be sympathetic to the addicts, it's really hard for me to do while watching the few episodes I've seen.
I agree, and while I understand that addiction is an illness and that addicts need help, not scorn, it's incredibly hard for me to watch a young kid drinking himself to death and not want to beat the shit out of him and tell him to tighten up his game and have some self-respect.
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post #12 of 12
7/13/10 at 3:34pm
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I agree, and while I understand that addiction is an illness and that addicts need help, not scorn, it's incredibly hard for me to watch a young kid drinking himself to death and not want to beat the shit out of him and tell him to tighten up his game and have some self-respect.
Ok, so I'm not the only one that wants to inflict violence on the addicts for the stupid behavior I've seen on that show. Good.
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