Damn You, Celebrity Sober House!
There are very few instances of reality television viewing in our house. A Supernanny here, a Wifeswap there...and I have a weakness for the fall down drunks on Intervention... so, I suppose it's only a matter of logic that I would get addicted to Celebrity Rehab and its offshoot Sober House. (See what I did there? Addiction? Rehab? Sober? Awesome.)
Anyhoo...yes. I admit I am an avid viewer of the Dr. Drew Franchise. And it's what I'm writing about today.
The season opened with Steven Adler showing up fucking nodded out on Heroin. Awesome. The tiresome constantly emoting about how hard her job is house mom rightfully wants him kicked out.
Dr. Drew says, no....let's get him detoxed again and then we'll see where he is. Apparently "see where he is" translates to "not searching the rest of his belongings/person for more fucking drugs", because the dude comes back to the house, higher than before and basically on a bender. IN the house. So, we spend an episode watching an ex-drummer stroke victim bump around the house, change his pants seven times, and nod out in various dark corners.
Then House Mom calls the cops.
Good for her.
He never should have been allowed back in the first place.
So, what happens? Do the residents get angry that they've been convinced—well paid—but still convinced (watch the last episode of Rehab for the high pressure "ARE YOU GOING TO SOBER LIVING" nonsense everyone had to endure) to leave their lives, and in some cases, children, to live in a "sober" environment for the enter-cation of the teeming masses, only to discover that there's an active drug addict running around the house with his lips firmly wrapped around a pipe and needles in any vein that's not collapsed. Do they get indignant about the fact that Dr. Drew LET THIS GUY BACK IN after knowing that he had drugs on him the minute he stepped in the door? Does the House Mom get to tell Dr. Drew "She told him so"?
No.
No.
THe residents get pissed alright, pissed that someone called the cops.
What?
Really?
Yes. They're pissed because they feel like the house mom betrayed them. By keeping them safe.
Ok fine. I hope they all fucking fail. If that's what they're mad about...that if they relapse someone's gonna call the cops on them and they feel afraid...of GETTING IN TROUBLE..then fine. I hope they fail. If you can't recognize the ways in which your sobriety is threatened and get angry when the people who aren't supposed to let that happen, do? I'm done with you.
Except for Rodney. I heart him. He's the only one who isn't behaving like a 9 year old.
And fuck you too, Dr. Drew for putting those people in that position. Twice. And now, it's looking like a 3rd time as I saw some previews of the administrators actually discussing whether Steven should be let back in.
And goddamn me for letting myself get sucked in to this nonsense.
Anyhoo...yes. I admit I am an avid viewer of the Dr. Drew Franchise. And it's what I'm writing about today.
The season opened with Steven Adler showing up fucking nodded out on Heroin. Awesome. The tiresome constantly emoting about how hard her job is house mom rightfully wants him kicked out.
Dr. Drew says, no....let's get him detoxed again and then we'll see where he is. Apparently "see where he is" translates to "not searching the rest of his belongings/person for more fucking drugs", because the dude comes back to the house, higher than before and basically on a bender. IN the house. So, we spend an episode watching an ex-drummer stroke victim bump around the house, change his pants seven times, and nod out in various dark corners.
Then House Mom calls the cops.
Good for her.
He never should have been allowed back in the first place.
So, what happens? Do the residents get angry that they've been convinced—well paid—but still convinced (watch the last episode of Rehab for the high pressure "ARE YOU GOING TO SOBER LIVING" nonsense everyone had to endure) to leave their lives, and in some cases, children, to live in a "sober" environment for the enter-cation of the teeming masses, only to discover that there's an active drug addict running around the house with his lips firmly wrapped around a pipe and needles in any vein that's not collapsed. Do they get indignant about the fact that Dr. Drew LET THIS GUY BACK IN after knowing that he had drugs on him the minute he stepped in the door? Does the House Mom get to tell Dr. Drew "She told him so"?
No.
No.
THe residents get pissed alright, pissed that someone called the cops.
What?
Really?
Yes. They're pissed because they feel like the house mom betrayed them. By keeping them safe.
Ok fine. I hope they all fucking fail. If that's what they're mad about...that if they relapse someone's gonna call the cops on them and they feel afraid...of GETTING IN TROUBLE..then fine. I hope they fail. If you can't recognize the ways in which your sobriety is threatened and get angry when the people who aren't supposed to let that happen, do? I'm done with you.
Except for Rodney. I heart him. He's the only one who isn't behaving like a 9 year old.
And fuck you too, Dr. Drew for putting those people in that position. Twice. And now, it's looking like a 3rd time as I saw some previews of the administrators actually discussing whether Steven should be let back in.
And goddamn me for letting myself get sucked in to this nonsense.
posted by LC Greenwood at 8:45 AM
2 Comments:
This is exactly why I stayed safely addicted to "Rock of Love". There were no cop calling incidents. And the only needles going into arms are those carrying insulin so Bret could continue to rock us with that accoustic version of "Every Rose Has It's Thorn" every. single. episode.
I miss listening to Love Line while heading out for an 11:30 pm McDonald's run. But I might be alone on that one.
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