pjmedia.com By Sarah Anderson
I have a confession to make. I used to enjoy some of TLC’s reality shows. Not the “let’s turn people into freak show” ones about people who weighed 1,000+ pounds or — gag — the pimple-popper one, but the more family-oriented ones. It started with “Jon & Kate Plus 8,” though that turned out to be a mess, and “Little People, Big World.” I also loved “Outdaughtered,” the show about the couple who chose life in the face of adversity and welcomed beautiful quintuplets, and “7 Little Johnstons,” which is a show about a family that is somewhat local to me that grew through adoption.
For the most part, these shows were somewhat wholesome, and they were something my mom and I could watch together in her later years when she was sick and not able to do much of anything else. I think I also watched with a little bit of envy because I’d always wanted a big family myself.
But TLC’s latest “family-oriented” reality show doesn’t sit well with me.
It’s called “The Baldwins,” and it follows America-hating, homophobic actor Alec Baldwin; his “Spanish” wife, “Hilaria;” and their 1,383 kids through everything from his trial for shooting cinematographer Halyna Hutchins and how difficult it was for their family to what looks like some “day-in-the-life”-type stuff in which Alec tells the kids not to pee in the pool and “Hilaria” yells at them for eating chocolate.
Over the years, both members of the Baldwin couple have proven themselves to be questionable human beings, so now, this TV network decides to reward them with their own show? I was going to say “no thanks,” but “hell no” seems like a better response.
Where to start? I guess I’ll start from the beginning for those who don’t know. In 2011, Baldwin began dating a “Spanish” yoga instructor named “Hilaria.” In less than a year, they were married, and the year after that, they had their first child. Between 2013 and 2022, they had seven kids, sometimes incorporating surrogates because I guess they couldn’t procreate fast enough on their own. Two of those kids are about five months apart…
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