Southern Fried Stings

This show is on the low of the low staged reality shows. When did the US change the Constitution & Bill of Rights? This dude & his team of soccer hooligans think they can harass & bust anyone & everyone. They kick in people's doors, forcibly detain people, threaten them, assault them, and cuff them like they are some sort of quasi-law enforcement militia. Most LE agencies cant even do what they do legally. Sorry old dude & hooligans, but you are NOT Seal Team 6 hunting down & killing Osama! Too bad you scare the crap out of the people you harass. They probably are unaware of the fact they can laugh in your face, flip you off, & then walk away.

Jay and his team get into some pretty crazy situations. They get guns pointed in their faces, surprise the heck out of drug-dealing moms and in general fight crime in the South. But watching this show, just one little thing is nagging at me...

Just WHAT the Hell are these guys? Private Detectives? Private Security? Some sort of private crime-busting organization that is half Neighborhood Watch and half Minutemen? Well, I suppose it is all irrelevant anyway, since like every "reality" show on the insipid truTV network it does not disguise it's fabricated nature at all.

Are we to seriously expect any non-governmental organization could get away with half of the things they get involved in? How is it that this group of A-Team wanna-be's can get involved in more car chases and stick-ups than the real thing as shown on COPS? In our litigation-happy nation, Jay and his crew would have been sued out of business long ago considering how reckless they act. And while it is difficult to describe, SFS is one of those shows that anyone of reasonable intelligence can tell is a scripted sham. It is as cleverly written as a 2nd-grader's play and just as immature.

Seriously. If you like watching Jersey Shore, Operation Repo, and similar shows, you will probably enjoy this. You also probably enjoy eating lead paint chips, so there is really no point in really trying to stop you from doing either activity. Everyone who has not had their brains destroyed by heavy metal poisoning? Avoid it like a fried twinkie.

What does the name TRU TV conjure up? Let's stop and think of it for a moment. Does it bring up thoughts of SCRIPTED series trying to pose as real ;ife situations? It sure as H E double hockey stick doesn't for me.

Now on to Southern Fried STings. One episode had a either a DJ or talk show host (I can't remember which) at a radio station getting threats against his life. OK, so far so good. The ITSY BITSY problem I had was when they showed the frequency of the radio station: 90.4 (or something where the number to the right of the decimal was an EVEN number). Here inn the United States that # to the right is ALWAYS an odd number (1,3,5,7 or 9). When I saw that any hope that this was a real deal flew right out the window.

Someone on another show on this sight said "The '50s was the Golden Age of TV. We are now in the Dark Ages." I completely agree. Thank Goodness for the Internet!!!

This is what people mean when they say "95% of what I see on TV is pure garbage". Apparently there's enough people mesmerized with this scripted nonsense to allow the show to still sit up and take nourishment, just like there will always be people who will waste their time watching soap operas. But for me, I'd rather watch a housefly laying eggs in rotten meat. I just hope no one thinks any of this is real or that this is how public officials are supposed to behave. I've given up on TruTV ever being able to produce a quality reality TV show. They're the National Equirer of TV shows. Just something you see in the magazine stand at the grocery check out that makes you either chuckle at or just shake your head at the fact that there's always a lowest common denominator to measure against.

I have seen bits of two back two back episodes, and went rite to the internet to verify my suspicion that this show is FAKE. I made it to Wiki and the description with in stated that it is " reenactments " which in no uncertain terms tells me IT'S FAKE. This is my opinion and I voted the show 1 Star, if I could have voted lower, I would have, Ill be sending an E- Mail to IMDb asking why I can't give a half or zero star vote. Don't waste your time on this show, it's an embarrassment that it's on a TV channel called TRU TV, this jeopardizes the name and integrate of the station. I'm not one to give reviews to the public but I felt so compelled and moved to warm the public and the people I feel that frequent this sight as knowledgeable viewers of media content, STAY AWAY from Souther Fried Sting. Unless you see it for what it is, a reenacted, facsimile of something that may or may not have really happened.