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I really liked this documentary, but sometimes it seemed very obvious that its focus was to find left-leaning subcultures within the Hillbilly culture in order to give left-leaning America hope...

The main problem with this, is that it the film kept making the claim that hillbillies are unfairly represented in media... but in this, seemed to do exactly what the media does to hillbillies.

It's worth a watch.

The first season of this show was awesome... of course, Robert Herjavec is a star... the first season seemed to really go to a town and businesses that needed help. By the third season, they're in a city of more than 25,000 working with businesses that don't seem to struggle as much, in an area on a beautiful river... I mean, it just gets easier and easier to produce results. By season 4, they pick a growing city and businesses that really aren't struggling... so again, easy wins.

But season 4 was why I gave this show, a show that I really like, a 5 out of 10. This season was knock after knock against people of this city in Arkansas. They kept harping on inclusiveness and diversity over and over again... and never stopped. They fell short of calling the people of Searcy bigots... but you could hear it all throughout. It felt like people from a wonderful big city were coming to share their wisdom with the hicks of Arkansas... but the problem... the hicks of Arkansas were already welcoming people of diverse backgrounds as evidenced by the diversity of the already existing businesses they picked.

I don't think we need the constant lecture and looking down upon that this show seems to be turning into... of course, they're making the show for their business... not really for small towns anymore... perhaps this makes Deluxe and their clients feel better about themselves.

So, the first few episodes are not bad... they're funny and the characters, though over the top, are pretty good. Then, they start bashing the church, everyone... I mean everyone starts coming out of the closet, they bash conservatives, the oversimplify struggles with weight, family and marriage... and every character becomes ridiculous. It's almost as though they sold this show on the first 2-3 episodes and had to fill the rest of a season and just threw everything they could together as quickly as possible. I would highly discourage beginning this show because you'll start to regret it at about episode 4.