Have we talked about Breaking Amish? Spoilers!

[madringal]

It is my new time suck, but I am getting so mad at what they are doing to the Kate story line. I think it is pretty clear the girl has some sort of mental illness - this may be her only real chance at getting some help!

It annoys me that they get Rebecca some new teeth, find Sabrina's real parents, and Kate is just getting worse and worse.

Yes I know it is TV, but their culture makes me sad - get her to a doctor!

Oh - and I cannot stand Rebecca.

[pugz]

it is 100% fake

[phunluvin82]

Oct 15, 2012 15:52:07 GMT -5 pugz said:

it is 100% fake

My husband showed me all the stuff that was fake, and I was bummed!

I'm still going to watch it though, lol.

Didn't see last night's though because we were out of town this weekend and got home really late...

[Deleted]

Oct 15, 2012 15:52:07 GMT -5 pugz said:

it is 100% fake

what? it's fake?! please explain.

[phunluvin82]

Oct 15, 2012 16:01:04 GMT -5 vigurl said:

Oct 15, 2012 15:52:07 GMT -5 pugz said:

it is 100% fake

what? it's fake?! please explain.

Supposedly Abe & Rebecca are married with a kid. And Jeremiah left the Amish over 10 years ago, married a non-Amish girl, had a bunch of kids, and is now divorced. Sabrina's married. Haven't really seen much about Kate though...except that I think she has some modeling pics and profiles online that are from a few years ago, so she didn't just start doing that.

So basically a lot of the 'firsts' are staged for the show...'first date', 'first time using an escalator', 'first time driving a car', etc, etc...they are not really as 'fresh off the farm' as the show presents.

[Deleted]

Oct 15, 2012 16:08:43 GMT -5 swizzlestx said:

Okay, so is the show paying for the hotel?

This is what I can't figure out, it looks expensive.

Super Expensive. I recognized it on the first episode - it's Lex 48. I'm sure the show is paying. Or the hotel might be comping for publicity since it just opened.

[womet]

Check out this blog for more info and pictures.

[blondemoment123]

I spent hours watching this show yesterday. I'm bummed that it's fake.

[madringal]

I take back what I said, that blog is my new time suck! And I shake my fist at you TLC for getting me all into a reality show that isn't even a little bit true. Grrr....

[pugz]

I mean, how would they even go about recruiting real amish folks? I guess they could go to the popular rumspringa hangouts and pass out fliers, lol. See who was thinking about defecting. But most of them get a lil wild and crazy, then get baptised/join the church and get married and start popping out kids.

[Deleted]

Oct 15, 2012 17:23:33 GMT -5 pugz said:

I mean, how would they even go about recruiting real amish folks? I guess they could go to the popular rumspringa hangouts and pass out fliers, lol.

LOL girl that is a good point and damn funny!

[womet]

So one thing I don't understand is why Abe and Rebecca's parents/grandparents came to NYC to convince them to come home. IF they had already been shunned, why did they try to convince them to come home? I can't imagine that the family would have been in on the lie too. Any thoughts?