Jon and Kate Gosselin have been through what’s possibly the most despair-ridden period of their entire lives.
But now they’re back. The divorce-postponed season of Jon & Kate Plus 8 resumes on Monday, and it promises to shine an unforgiving spotlight on a marriage torn apart by the pressures of fame. It will be bleak. It will be unrelentingly miserable. And yesterday we were given a tantalising hint at what dark scenes of emotional anguish we can expect from the Jon & Kate Plus 8 premiere.
Apparently Kate puts a tent up in a funny way. Oh, the agony! It’s too much!
If we had to pick one thing we enjoy about John & Kate Plus 8 over anything else, it’d probably be the show’s total obliviousness to anything that happens in the real world. Its production crew has access to one of the most gormless, never-ending soap operas in the entire world – magazines are constantly frothing on about Jon Gosselin’s purported infidelities or Kate Gosselin’s shrewish control freakery – and yet what does it actually broadcast? Interminable scenes of rollerskating children. It’s brilliant.
And it seems as if nothing will change when Jon & Kate Plus 8 returns to TLC on Monday. Look at all the things that have happened since the last episode was aired. Jon and Kate filed for divorce, causing Jon Gosselin to run away to Europe to dream up new ways of exploiting his children and possibly bang a load of pretty young girls on a yacht like some sort of sleazy, desperation-filled prematurely middle-aged pervert.
And that would make a great TV show – The Off-Puttingly Horny Adventures Of The World’s Most Utterly Average Man, they could call it. We’d watch. But that’s not going to happen, because yesterday the president of Jon & Kate Plus 8 network revealed exactly what viewers could expect to see when the show returns next week. People reports:
?You?ll see Jon struggle in the kitchen trying to make pizza for his kids,? TLC General Manager and President Eileen O?Neill said. ?You?ll see what its like when Kate has to put a tent up for the first time for her kids, who love to camp in their backyard. And she gets a little advice from her daughter who doesn't think she does it quite as well as dad.?
What? That’s it? No screaming? No moment when Kate Gosselin discovers that nobody wants to publish her book? No hard-to-bear scenes of eight distraught children failing to come to terms with why their parents don’t love them any more? No hilarious montage of Jon and Kate buying the kids a procession of ever-larger gifts in an effort to ease their guilt? That’s all we get? A chubby man trying to make a pizza?
Oh well, it’s better than nothing. And at least it maintains the tone of the show – which is bound to come in handy when Kate Gosselin loses the plot and hacks Jon to pieces with a medieval sword. That way it won’t look weird when TLC turns the incident into an episode that’s mostly about the best way to decorate fairy cakes or something.
Gear says
What you’ll see is both parents trading work schedules at the work place leaving the kids constantly at work where they are forever under the eye of public scuitinizing their parents. Jon deserves to be scitinized as his behavior is appalling, but the kids do not seserve one bit of this and are paying for his actions as well as all his girlfriends and dispicable behavior.
lisa says
This show needs to be taken off air immediately. It no longer signifys it’s original depiction and meaning. If you really care about the kids, Don’t Watch It!!!
Eugene says
Where’s the Children’s Aid Society (or whatever the equivalent is in Pennsylvania) when you need it?
And will the production company that’s carrying on with the series be willing to pay the therapy bills when those unfortunate children get older and have to deal with the long term impact of all this? I can imagine the entertainment attorneys circling like sharks that sense blood in the water…
Selena says
Well, I just wanted everyone to know that when this show first aired I was glued to it. I just thought Kate and John were so amazing I mean they were raising eight kids and making it look so easy. I love to watch people working hard it really motivates me. I know Kate was hard on John but I could relate. I mean we couldn’t possibly know how hard there lives are. I mean I don’t think she should have treated him as bad as she did, but that didn’t matter to me because if John put up with it that was him I don’t care. I mean everyone keeps saying how bad she was to him well you know what thats between them if they don’t have a problem with it then why the hell does everyone else. I don’t get that. Anyways I still like watching the show But I just wished they would go back like it was. Before they had so much money. Money always changes people and I dont’ understand that. Money can’t make you happy this is proof, they have more money than ever and look at them they are miserable. When they had no money they were so happy. Something they should think about. bye thanks selena
Rose says
Life changes people. What about the poor mother who doesnt have amillion dollar home in penn. who is justtrying to get child support. do you think for one minute that Kate has gone hungry because her children needed food? No. Kate go out and volunteer at a abused women and childrens shelter then I will pay attention to you. I think you look ridiculous talking to yourself and putting a tent up….. get over it…. 5 minutes you have had it and now its gone…. wave bye
Karen Tester says
OMG ~~~ We Idiots have all been scammed by John and Kate and now we finally caught wise.
We fell for that pity party that they had no money. We are Idiots. We fell for that marriage in Hawaii when their marriage was already on the rocks. We are Idiots.
We fell for it all. How ashamed I am to admit what Idiots we have been.
What were we thinking?
Karen Tester says
Come on. Money can make you happy when you can pay all your bills and not lose sleep at night over lack of money for necessities.
But turning into selfish, self-centered, egotistical, self-absorbed, nasty, stingy, creepy, screaming, maniac parents because you finally have lots of money can ruin your life.
John and Kate thought the gravy train would go forever and get bigger and bigger and we saps would fall for this sham forever.
They have to “get over themselves” now.