National Geographic TV’s primitive-living reality show “Live Free or Die” featuring my son-in-law Gabriel (with an unexpected but delightful cameo appearance by my daughter Luna) “dropped” this week, and so far it looks great!
The first episode, which aired this past Tuesday, showcased obtaining meat by hunting, trapping, or scavenging. Interestingly, it’s the first TV show I’ve seen that showed the process of skinning carcasses and prepping the meat without blurring the images or hiding the blood and gore. Which I think bodes well for taking the subject seriously.
As I’ve said before, we who know and love Gabriel were worried about how the producers/director would depict him through the editing process, but so far it looks like National Geographic’s doing this the right way and “respecting the material,” so to speak.
I mean, you can just imagine how they could have mocked this topic.
Tuesdays at 10pm, check it out.
And yes, this wasn’t his first pack rat. As he sings, Pack Rats Are GOOD! (TM)
“…were worried about how the producers/director would depict him through the editing process…”
He looks like Hollywood’s version of the ideal ‘Hippy’ so I they are probably pretty conflicted.
Give him a shave, a crewcut and an NRA t-shirt and I think the editing would look radically different.
Well, I wasn’t gonna watch the show, thinking it another “mee-too” on the reality TV bandwagon. Now, I shall, and look forward to so doing.
It’ll be a grand occasion to spark up a certain cigar, and enjoy!
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Well, I don’t watch reality shows generally, so I can’t really say it transcends the genre or anything. But hopefully you find something interesting in his sequences at least