Amish in the city

[Veronica_Anne]

You can watch the preview for the second episode from the official Website for this show at:

upn.com/shows/amish_in_the_city/

(Note: Both Ariel and Reese are city folk.

Name: Ariel

Occupation: Waitress

Background: From Los Angeles, Ariel was raised vegan and still leads a strict vegan lifestyle. Vocal in her views, she asserts, “Everything that is bad in this world right now is directly related to meat, I think, because it creates this horrible anger in the body.” She also practices yoga and meditation. Ariel is currently working at a raw food restaurant, but is contemplating attending college. She is adventurous and has traveled extensively through Costa Rica.

Name: Reese

Occupation: Club promoter

Background: Originally from Hattiesburg, Mississippi, Reese is currently a club promoter in Hollywood. Colorful and extremely extroverted, Reese works most nights. He also volunteers his time with a program that introduces performing arts to mentally disabled individuals and is in the process of finishing his bachelor’s degree in the arts.)

**REGGAE? NEVER HEARD OF THE DUDE"
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 4, 8PM ET/PT

With romance brewing between two roommates and viewpoints colliding throughout the Hollywood Hills home, the group enjoys special VIP treatment during an “Arrested Development” music concert at the Hollywood Park horse race track.

While the Amish ride on a city bus for the first time, the city participants learn a thing or two about horses during a visit to the Los Angeles Equestrian Center. Later, Reese reveals a new side of himself to his roommates through his volunteer work, introducing performing arts to mentally disabled individuals. Plus, Ariel joins the Amish for Sunday services at a local church for a taste of big city prayer. **

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BACKGROUND

AMISH IN THE CITY will provide a unique look into the Amish journey of discovery, known as rumspringa, through a group of young adults who have left their spiritually devout, rural communities to experience life in the big city.

In subsequent episodes, the show will follow the stories of the five Amish young adults and their six roommates from diverse backgrounds as they learn to live with each other in the Hollywood Hills. The show will chronicle how relationships develop and viewpoints collide in a house shared by young people from very different cultures, while also introducing viewers to the intensely personal Amish coming-of-age experience, called rumspringa.

From moments serious and significant to lighter and trivial, cameras catch everything as the Amish journey outside their quiet rural areas and are gradually introduced to both the delights and challenges of modern metropolitan life.

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Read an interview with Ruth & Mose

(Note: Mose is the Amish who just about drowned in the ocean in the first episode. It was kinda fun to watch how much fun he was having in wearing “not plain” clothes.)

(Note: I don’t like Ariel, much. At least, so far. She’s SO bent on what I call “extreme vegeterianism” that she calls eggs “chicken abortions.”)

 

[Veronica_Anne]

luckyirishguy14:

You gotta be careful with the Amish… not a good idea to make fools of them. I’m in Central Pennsylvania (pretty darn close to the Amish; in fact, an Amish supplier supplies my father with his workboots). They are very shrewd people. I have never seen this “Amish In The City” though; could anyone tell me how to find it?

It’s on a cable channel – UPN.

Wednesday nights at 8:00 pm (Eastern and Pacific time zones)

upn.com/shows/amish_in_the_city/

The second episode will be shown on August 4.

 

[dream_wanderer]

DominvsVobiscvm:

Look, I’m a straight man, but I have to say: that one Amish guy had the body of god! I mean, I don’t think I’ve ver seen the male body sculpted so beautifully . . .

And I say that in the most straight way possible . . .

. . . the body of a god . . .

I noticed. The one scene I watched was the one with the ‘city’ girls openly drooling over him.

I knew of the abuse that goes on in Amish culture. As a former Mormon once told me, there are hypocrites in every religion.

dream wanderer

 

[Veronica_Anne]

Peace-bwu:

I generally don’t watch reality TV… this “Amish in the City” sounds terrible! I watched bits and pieces of “simple Life” and it was disgusting. Our society glorifies such smut. The lack of respect those girls had for anything beyond themselves and material wealth was disgusting. I can’t believe there is a whole tv show about them traveling around acting like that. My husband described it well when he said “I would rather watch paint dry” I guess it must be PC to make fun of Amish kids?

This reality show is not at all like any other reality show. And NOT at ALL like “Simple Life” with Paris Hilton making fun of the “less sophisticated” types.

cnn.com/2004/SHOWBIZ/TV/01/19/tv.amishinthecity.ap/

Network executives are informally calling it “Amish in the City,” although they said Sunday the title will likely change.

“To have people who don’t have television walk down Rodeo Drive and be freaked out by what they see, I think will be interesting television,” said CBS chairman Leslie Moonves, who also oversees UPN. “It will not be denigrating to the Amish.”

“I was really fascinated by the idea of rumspringa,” says Mr. Kroll. “My feeling was that it would be a very interesting decision to make, even more interesting than it already is, if you were more informed about what sort of alternative there was to the Amish way of life.”

Make no mistake, the show has artificial elements, familiar to fans of such shows as MTV’s “Real World.” The young crew of 11 live together in a modern Hollywood Hills home, decorated with hyped-up Amish lifestyle artifacts - a wall of the broad-rimmed straw hats, a huge photographic mural of an Amish cornfield, and Amish-style quilts in Play-Doh colors for all the beds. Each day, the group starts out on a new expedition, from bumper-car racing and clothes shopping to a day at the beach.

But nobody is voted out and there are no cash prizes. The drama comes from crises of conscience. For example, Amish Mose wanders the house in the middle of the night, and then gets on his knees to read his Bible and pray after a day at the beach nearly ends in disaster. Often, the laughs come from the country mice giving their city cousins a comeuppance. City girl Ariel is a vegan who tells Mose he can’t eat eggs, to which he responds, “I bet Abraham Lincoln ate eggs.” Ariel says, “I bet he died at like, 35.”

Mose answers, “not from eggs, though.”

The point of this exercise in the end, say producers, is self-awareness, for both the city and the country mice. “All these people are at a crossroads in their lives,” says Kroll, “and it’s definitely going to be a decisionmaking point. That is the big difference between this show and other shows that involve a bunch of people living in a house.”

 

[Veronica_Anne]

Veronica Anne:

I was also overjoyed when I saw that city guy teach that Amish gal how to swim in that pool. He teaches kids how to swim (I think he does that in his job). He offered to teach her and she accepted. The entire time he was teaching her (now, remember, she’s wearing a two-piece swimsuit like every other woman on the show was wearing – I don’t because to me, 2-piece swimsuits have always looked like underwear). He showed SUCH respect for her! He was NOT coming on to her… just teaching her step by step how to swim. It was actually quite tender to see!

That city guy is Kevan. Here’s his bio from the show’s Web site:

upn.com/shows/amish_in_the_city/

Name: Kevan

Occupation: Sales

Background: From Las Vegas, Kevan recently graduated from the University of Nevada, Reno with a degree in business. Now that college is over, he is trying to decide what his next step in life should be. He comes from a small family with a Persian-Muslim father and American-Presbyterian mother. Well-rounded and funny, he is a competitive swimmer and spends time teaching children how to swim. Kevin has also recently started playing the guitar.

At the show’s Website, you can see a couple of minutes of that episode, including a part of that scene. Just click on the link to:

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[DominvsVobiscvm]

Kevan’s gay.

No, he hasn’t said he is, and the girls will be upset to hear this, but he is.

How do I know? We actors have a special, built-in “Gaydar” that helps us to detect this kind of thing. In this Business, you need it!

Sorry, ladies.

Duck

 

[dream_wanderer]

DominvsVobiscvm:

Kevan’s gay.

No, he hasn’t said he is, and the girls will be upset to hear this, but he is.

How do I know? We actors have a special, built-in “Gaydar” that helps us to detect this kind of thing. In this Business, you need it!

Sorry, ladies.

Duck

I have ‘gay dar’ and I’m not an actor. I haven’t watched this particular young man but I’ll tune in and see if I get any vibes.

I rarely wrong…and I have NO idea why I can do this.

And if he is gay that doesn’t mean that the ‘girls’ will be upset… We can admire a man for things other than him being a potential romantic interest.

dream wanderer