New Lifetime TV series "The Sisterhood: Becoming Nuns"

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I just saw the first episode tonight
It was ridiculous.
It is hard for me to believe these young women have had a strong Catholic background. It is edited and scripted and I am a little confused why the sisters at the convent would want to participate in this reality show.
The girls seem to have no clue what is expected of them.
Don’t think I will be watching anymore.
This could be a great teaching tool about the Catholic faith.
 
7_Sorrows said:
I just saw the first episode tonight
It was ridiculous.
It is hard for me to believe these young women have had a strong Catholic background. It is edited and scripted and I am a little confused why the sisters at the convent would want to participate in this reality show.
The girls seem to have no clue what is expected of them.
Don’t think I will be watching anymore.
This could be a great teaching tool about the Catholic faith.
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Thanks for the review. I’m disappointed to hear that for your are spot on, it could have been a great teaching tool.
Mary.
 
Surely a Catholic woman by the age of 18-21 would realize the seriousness of discernment. These young women seem not to have a clue. The nuns have their work cut out for them. The young women seem more self conscious since they are on tv. Each one of them I already find annoying when they speak on camera. There is one who seems a little more mature than the others. She rode to the convent with another young woman who was bragging about the boyfriends she had had and making these strange comments about Jesus.
 
The.pimapy.woopy.seems.to.be.with.loosimg.makeup.ad.cell.phomes.mo.thamks
 
I actually admire them for having the courage to find out what God wants them to do with their lives. Yes, a lot of them are immature or don’t have realistic expectations of religious life…but at least they are trying to discover what God wants them to do and how many twenty years old actually do that? I think it would be hard enough to discern religious life without have a camera following you around everywhere.
 
I live under a rock. I just saw this show. You know what it reminds me of? That God or the Girl series from several years ago. Sad.
 
Hi andrewstx,

I hope that you can get a new keyboard.

I was able to read your posts. 🙂

You are right–the girls were worried about not being able to use their cell phones and the one young lady Fran was especially worried about not being able to wear make-up, due to having acne.

I don’t have cable TV anymore, but I have been watching the episodes on my computer.
 
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Hi andrewstx,

I hope that you can get a new keyboard.

I was able to read your posts. 🙂

You are right–the girls were worried about not being able to use their cell phones and the one young lady Fran was especially worried about not being able to wear make-up, due to having acne.

I don’t have cable TV anymore, but I have been watching the episodes on my computer.
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Have they gotten any better? :yawn:
 
They showed episodes 3 and 4 tonight (1 and 2 are available to stream from the website).

I think it is okay, if you understand that:

1.) It’s still “reality TV” and it’s so it is produced to get ratings and sell advertising, etc. Even on a Tuesday night, it has to appeal to the general public and it has to make sense.

and

2.) They are trying to edit 2 weeks’ worth of filming at each convent over 2 hour-long episodes (for a total of 6).

ergo,

3.) Conversations and storylines will be heavily cut to create characters and personas that are easily labeled (as in, “drama queen”, “free spirited”, “stuck-up prude”, etc).

One needs to remember that the real women (sisters included) are multi-dimensional. All are faithful (or striving to be) Catholics, and none of them just decided to do this out of nowhere. Some have been discerning for quite some time. All of them are courageous for having their personal journey with Christ broadcast on TV like this.

I think, yes, episode 1 was pretty shallow, and that probably the loss of makeup and cell phones was played-up to create a “hook” for the audience. The communication breakdown in episode 2 was somewhat of a missed opportunity to delve into the ugly side of community relations.

Episodes 3 and 4 were aired together, and I thought that it got slightly more genuine, but I think there was somewhat of a missed opportunity to catechize. Much of it made sense to me, but to the non-Catholic or even marginal Catholic, it would raise questions. It portrays the women at Adoration (What is that? Why are most of them kneeling yet one of them decided to lay down on the tile floor in the middle of the aisle?). It filmed the women attending Reconciliation from a distance (But why are the women revealing what they discussed - isn’t that a secret?). I thought it portrayed the Chicago vocation director as rather authoritarian and heavy-handed, but they did redeem her a little at the end when the women went swimming.
 
I really enjoy the sisters’ point of view and tolerate the girls. I understand why the producers selected them (drama factor), and will reserve final judgement on the series when it’s over. If there’s at lease some indication of spiritual maturity taking place in them, it would be worth another series.

My main gripe has to do with the girls being allowed to wear makeup on camera, whether in the convent, or out on mission work. That was the first thing they learned in episode one, that makeup detracts from focusing on Our Lord, and they were instructed to not use it. Next scenes showed them with mascara, eyebrow pencil, lip color/gloss. I just find it distracting.
 
Oy, Francesca! :bighanky:

And Darnelle, please. :nunchuk:

Ok, I get why they chose the girls, drama factor, but I’m barely tolerating them. My biggest peeve is about their still being allowed to wear makeup, especially after that first episode where there was such hoopla over being told to take it off. That the show explains why they don’t ear makeup, but then allows for it, seems disrespectful. Then they irritated me when they set up the Darnelle drama. I felt they blindsided Sr. BethAnn.

Really enjoying the nuns, though, and I like how the show gives them a good chunk of air time. Learned a lot in episode three about how they serve the homeless on the streets and market begging. That’s beneficial and almost worth putting up with the girls. But, hey, these girls are young, broken, and confused, so it’s probably not so far off from truth.
 
I’ve just watched episodes 3 and 4. I think Christie is emerging as the most likely to ‘discern’ one way or the other. I wonder whether the girls were given any proper instruction in what to ‘discern’ actually meant? It really doesn’t seem that way.

What on earth was Clare wearing to go swimming in? Sometimes over here you see the Muslim ladies wearing a Muslim styled swimming costume in keeping with their normal attire but Clares costume seemed to have even more fabric and coverage than her normal blouse and skirt!
 
The whole crowd of them need a good shake. I’ve never seen so many immature girls so concerned about themselves
 
The nuns are amazing though. Particularly Sr. Cyril. Please God tell me where the girl form California got the notion she should be a nun
 
Looks like the girl Christie has entered the convent. The nuns are helping her with her fundraiser to pay off her debt faster (“Send Christie to The Convent website”). That was nice of them. 🙂
 
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