TV REVIEW: Gold Rush Alaska
Article by: Phillip Brunelle
Hollywood SHAME
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ALASKA - Season one of the Discovery Channel's reality show Gold Rush Alaska has come to an end, and Phillip Brunelle of Hollywood Shame would like to share his two-cents on his thoughts of the show in this television review.
Gold Rush Alaska is a docu-reality series which airs on the Discovery Channel network.
The Discovery Channel's description of the television show is:
In the face of the economic meltdown, six men risk everything to strike it rich mining for gold in the wilds of Alaska. Todd Hoffman of Sandy, Oregon, along with his father, lead a group of greenhorn miners in search of the American dream and a new frontier. Gold fever is back, and the rush is on.The Hollywood Shame description on this show is slightly different. The only rush displayed in the show was one of the cast members rushing home, the daughter of another cast member being rushed to the hospital, and the Gold Rush team rushing to fix mistake after mistake in each and every episode.
Owner of HollywoodShame.com, Phillip Brunelle said "The entire season I wanted nothing more than for the guys to hit the jackpot, but all they hit was rock bottom, and in the end as they returned home during the Alaskan winter with their heads shamefully held down the only gold they found was dust and a few pebbles, that were not even worthy of being called nuggets".
It wasn't until the last few shows of the season of Gold Rush Alaska that the team even began finding gold. The first several shows of the season featured failures, machine and equipment breakdowns, drama between the guys as they continuously fought with each other, money being wasted as they continued on searching for gold in all the wrong ways, more money being wasted as they made a poor decision to fly their families out to Alaska when they could barely afford to get by every day as it was, complete ignorance of the right way to search for gold, the right way to run their equipment, a lack of communication and huge aplha-male egos that got in the way of anyone accepting help from other successful gold miners just trying to help.
Shockingly, the Discovery Channel will be bringing the Gold Rush Alaska show back for another season this year, and if you have seen the first season of the show, certainly you agree with us that this was a poor decision by the network.
Supposedly the team feels as though after all of their epic failures that they finally know what needs to be done to hit the motherlode, but after giving the show an entire season to prove this, we can only say that it was a complete waste of time and a failure television show that we won't be watching.
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