For a second I thought it we were talking about that movie too. If people are getting pissed at the show now just imagine how people would react if lives were at stake here.
It's true, our views matter more than our opinions on a random meme forum. We speak with our money, so if we don't want shows like this to exist we just don't watch them.
It's amazing how big that dislike bar on the video for the trailer is, though. I can't remember the last time I saw a dislike bar that big.
As was said already, people that participate in reality shows exploit themselves just as much as the network exploits them. That being said, I'm still really pissed that these multi-billion dollar networks feel it's ok to just parade around poor and struggling families and then get to give themselves a good pat on the back because they pretend their manipulation is actually charity. Really, the part of this whole thing that bugs me the most isn't the fact that they guilt poor families into giving money away, it's actually the fact that they hide that both families have briefcases of money. Something about that just feels very dirty and scummy to me. I'm going to guess when these families signed the contract to sell themselves to television they weren't told about that whole part of the ordeal. Definitely not going to be giving this show a viewing.
@Lisa:
I imagine it's easy for a family to get $100k+ in debt if a family member has a condition that really racks up the medical bills, or if multiple family members went to college, or maybe the family owns a failing business. God knows the families on this show have the craziest stories for why they're so in debt.