I haven't written about it for a variety of reasons. Basically, the family seems much more tightly scripted than in previous programs. I know that they were pressed into story lines by TLC, but it seemed much more natural back then. Particularly now with the family interviews. And we have POV camera shots coming directly from June's perspective after she woke up blind in the last episode (see below). Are we supposed to believe that she has little video cameras in her eyeballs? Or how about the time that the camera crew quietly watched as 11-year-old Alana snuck away from the house in an Uber car? Like that's gonna happen...
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| June's Blind Eye Cam |
Here are the two season summaries: In Season One, Sugar Bear decided to get married to a nasty woman named Jennifer who really hated June. To be fair, the feeling was mutual. June decided that she had one year (give or take a month) to lose roughly 300 pounds. So she hired the best coaches, bariatric surgeons, and plastic surgeons and managed to go from "not" to "hot" just in time for Sugar Bear's and Jennifer's backyard wedding -- which she totally ruined by getting into a fight with Jennifer.
In Season Two, June decided for some reason (I didn't start watching right away) that she wanted to become a pageant contestant. So she began working with Alana and a pageant coach to learn how to compete in beauty pageants. That's the theme, but it really seems to be about fighting with teen mom Pumpkin, trying not to go blind, and fighting with Sugar Bear and Jennifer.
Speaking of which, how stupid was it that Jennifer got it in her head that Alana isn't Sugar Bear's daughter. She secretly gathered DNA for testing and is trying to find out if she can sever his bond with Honey Boo Boo herself. Like that won't blow up in her face either way. But I digress...
One of the stupidest subplots has to do with this fight between June and her pregnant 17-year-old daughter Pumpkin and Pumpkin's live-in boyfriend Josh. Pumpkin moved Josh into the family home without asking. She then had John put up all sorts of racy pictures in the living room. A fight ensued, resulting in Pumpkin storming from the house and moving into a cheap motel with her baby daddy.
They spent half of last night's episode exploring potential rental apartments for under $700 per month with help from a little help and supervision from their camera crew. It became clear that they could only afford cheap apartments with bugs and no privacy. Which was pretty much what they lived in during their "Here Comes Honey Boo Boo" days, but I guess Pumpkin has moved on from her days of low-income housing and expects bigger and better things from life now that she's been on a few TV shows.
Interjected with their tour was a series of production interviews with Pumpkin and Josh that essentially went like: "You know where we can have a fridge? At your mom's house!""NO!""You know where there isn't a washer/dryer hook-up in the living room? At your mom's house!""NO!""You know where we can sleep without bedbugs? At your mom's house!""NO!"
Finally, Pumpkin and Josh were complaining at the hotel and Josh once again asks something like, "Ready to go back to your mother's house yet?" And Pumpkin screams "No!" at him again. And I turned to Husband Mark and noted, "You realize that they are currently in Mama June's house right now. They are literally debating about moving back to her house from inside of her house. They could change the locks from inside the house right this second."
Long story made short, everyone made up and moved back into the house just in time for June to return to pageant training and for Jennifer to receive the DNA testing results in the mail -- conveniently on the morning that the production crew was at her home and waiting with her mic'd up son outside of the mailbox. Of course, she spent just enough time moralizing over the decision to read the results so that the show ended and we have to wait until next week to learn the results.