Storage Wars: Texas

We love it! exciting, and interesting show. Much to learn from the show and entertaining, people seem pretty cool, Mary was great and one of our fav until she tore up the piano with tools and a Chainsaw, poor Jenny what Mary did was wrong, ridiculous and Very Childish! the rest of the guys are all cool.

Just the right amount of insanity and wild characters.

The show has been off the air for a couple of years, but in the interest of leaving a review that doesn't overuse the word "moron" or some variation thereof...

I liked the show as much, if not more than the original for the first couple of seasons. Jenny and Mary were great additions for season two, which I think is the strongest season.

But then you could see the wheels coming off in season three. We still had Mary, which was a huge plus, but Moe was gone most of the season. I didn't realize how much Victor was part of the enjoyment of the show until he was out of the opening credits and gone for most of the season as well. Other buyers came and went and you didn't know week to week who would be there. That not only left things unstable, but none of the part time "characters" were very likable. In particular Matt Blevins who is the only person less likable than Dave Hester on the original series.

As for the show in general, I find some of the criticism funny. It IS a TV show, so there are certain things that are done for TV. There have been more than a few times they have come across something I'm quite sure they are aware of the value, but for the benefit of the show they "have it checked out". That doesn't mean the show is fake, and that doesn't mean the people on it are (here comes that word) morons.

If you like the original Storage Wars, it's worth checking out, though you might get ready to abandon ship with season three.

The producers are trying to reproduce this franchise like CSI. The only real difference between the shows is the characters being created and they are so obviously created. It doesn't mean that I can't have a bit of fun. It's fake fun for a fake show from a faking franchise. I do like the big guys although cutie Mary Padian is the breakout star. She gets promoted to the big show after this spinoff dies off. It has a few minor differences from the mother show but the formula is too rigid. It has nothing new to say and there's not enough of a reason for it to exist.

Why is American "reality" TV SO scripted? Because Americans watch it, I guess. This might be the worst example of such fakery I've ever seen. The acting is so over-the-top it would make Pauly Shore cringe. Guys put on cowboy hats and start monologuing to the camera like Larry the Cable Guy knockoffs--one guy says something stupid, the other guy does a take to the camera, and the music kicks in with a "WAH WAH" to let you know that the first guy is stupid and it's hilarious. If you grabb a bunch of people at random off the street, dress them up like stereotypical rednecks, and say, "Okay, we're filming a show that's basically like The Office but it's Storage Wars: Texas and you're improvising all of it--GO!" this is the kind of crap you'd get. So bad and grating and terrible and dumb. Why couldn't we have actual INTERESTING people talk knowledgeably about their profession and the items they acquire instead of this condescending, pandering, artificial drivel?