In the episodes I watched, one of the girls (Chelsea) was fighting with their mother over the possibility of her babydaddy taking the baby and moving out of state. Another (Leah) was arguing with their fiance over marriage. The third girl (Jenelle) pretty much ran away from her family and took her mom's credit cards, who quickly canceled and left Jenelle with no money. Finally there's Kailyn, who is having trouble finalizing a custody agreement with her ex-boyfriend.
Here's Jenelle, the runaway mommy. Note how the cameras ran away with her.
Honestly, this show is pathetic. It does an awful job of showing the world the difficulties of teenage motherhood. I'm not sure how they made it through a season, considering nothing even really happened in the two episodes that I watched. Every episode is pretty much the same thing, with no major progression or advancements. All of the "action" seems forced, and even when Jenelle's mom is yelling at her, it seems like she's only doing it because it adds to the show's drama. There is very little reality in this boring and depressing show. Maybe I can't really relate because I've never been through this kind of struggle, or maybe it's a "girl thing", but there is honestly nothing exciting or watchable about it. I'm actually sort of mad that I watched it because that means their ratings just went up a little bit. The girls with the most explosive attitudes definitely get the most showtime. Melodramatic, bitchy nothing-fights are rewarded with more spotlight on the show, so naturally all of the girls are prone to getting involved in senseless arguments.
One interesting thing is that, for the most part, these girls aren't even that attractive like you'd expect TV stars to be! (I guess that makes it seem more real.) It's like they just found four girls who wanted some cash in exchange for the complete exploitation of their lives (and the babies' lives). I think I responded the most to Leah, because she actually seemed the most levelheaded. The other girls were redundant and uninteresting (though I guess being annoyed is a response).
The hardest part about this blog is trying to come up with reasons why people watch this garbage. Perhaps they want to feel better about their own miserable lives by saying, "Hey, at least I'm not an irresponsible young lonely mother without a job or money!", or maybe they feel bad for these young women, or maybe it's just what comes on after Jersey Shore and everybody forgot to turn the TV off before they fell asleep. It's a slow-moving show with very little going on, so I would have to think that many of the dedicated viewers have to be mothers themselves, or have daughters (thus leading to the realization that their innocent little princess might be out getting knocked up in the backseat of a 2005 Eclipse with a cheap spoiler and primer-colored paint job by her disrespectful jobless punk of a boyfriend at any given time). My role as a viewer is to feel bad for these girls and their current situation, and perhaps to pretend that these are just normal girls who could be living down the street from me. The only emotion I felt is depression of the fact that I can never get that hour of my life back.
