Polygamy show stinks
"Forbidden Love" (Sunday, 11 p.m., TLC) is rather ridiculous to begin with. Porter tells viewers that she's been single for four years and she's looking for love. But first she plans to "experience some of the most extreme ways that women find love and live with men."
Next week: geishas!
But first up: polygamists! And, apparently incapable of spending 30 seconds doing research on the Internet, Porter is also incapable of understanding that Mormons do not practice polygamy. That it was abandoned by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in 1896.
"Polygamy means one husband and lots of wives. It's a basic tenet of the Mormon Church," Porter intones. "Now it's outlawed, but many fundamentalist Mormons hide out in the middle of nowhere in Utah and the states around it."
Again, 30 seconds of research and Porter would have discovered that it hasn't been a basic tenet of the Mormon Church in 118 years.
Porter traveled to Centennial Park, Ariz., to visit a family of polygamists at the time Texas authorities were raiding the FLDS compound. "I couldn't have chosen a worse moment to try and get into a Mormon household," she incorrectly states.
And, reading a headline in the Cedar City Spectrum, she tells viewers about the "400 children taken away from a polygamous Mormon family in Texas. Basically, allegations of child abuse and underage marriage."
So, she not only misinforms viewers because there is no such thing as a "polygamous Mormon family," but she ties the Mormon Church to "allegations of child abuse and underage marriage."
It's flabbergasting.
There are examples throughout the hour of Porter's incompetence. Multiple uses of phrases like "Mormon polygamists" and raising polygamist children to have "true Mormon values."
The show itself is a bore. Porter meets and talks to polygamists and, through a series of interviews, reveals ... pretty much nothing. And, if her "reporting" weren't so amateurish and misleading, it would be almost funny.
It's not so much about the people she's "reporting" on, it's about Porter herself. How she feels about the prospects of entering a polygamous marriage. About how she'd be uncomfortable if her husband was sleeping with another wife.
Oh, and there's dramatic/eerie music playing in the background just to take this from cheesy to cheesiest.
There are moments that are so ludicrous you almost have to wonder if Porter is putting us on. It plays like a parody from "Saturday Night Live."
Recent comments
Everyone should read "Escape" by Carolyn Jessop to understand why...
Anonymous | Nov. 29, 2008 at 1:47 p.m.
I enjoyeed the show! It was good to see inside a Mormon houshold.
Ashly | Nov. 23, 2008 at 9:05 p.m.
I wrote to TLC about this program. They responded that they were not...
Anonymous | Nov. 18, 2008 at 12:49 p.m.
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