Feedback on "The Hunting Wives" from my fellow Texans?

[Anonymous]

I'm from NoLa and this show is....out there. In E1, mommy eye contacts with son who is...unmentionable while girlfriend is praying. WTAF?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm from NoLa and this show is....out there. In E1, mommy eye contacts with son who is...unmentionable while girlfriend is praying. WTAF?

quoting myself here. There are LESBIANs in Texas! Why wasn't I informed sooner?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It is clearly not meant to be a realistic show, it is bonkers over the top, albeit very entertaining. The main character, who is from the east coast, comes off like a complete idiot compared to the Texans.

+1
I keep wanting to say, "bless your heart" to her. She's so overly earnest and PC.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm a 7th generation Texan and I just barely got through the first episode. Women do not talk crassly like these characters -- at all. The only times I've seen anyone wear cowboy hats at a party were Texas-themed parties and once at a small town dance hall. I know women who own guns, but I don't know any who actually hunt. That's something for their husbands to bond over. I have a massive family and only four of my male relatives hunt.

What did they get right? Texans are friendly and gracious to strangers and newcomers, including those of non-white races. (In fact, they go over the top to prove they're not racist while supporting racist policies.) Women make more of an effort with clothes, hair, and make-up and it's not this stereotypically tasteless way of dressing. The ugly residential architectural styles, although that's improving. The green landscapes of East Texas dotted with oil pumps. The way that men control the women in their families. Dermot Mulroney is on pitch. He reminds me of a few of my males relatives, unfortunately.

That dig about "she thinks we're deplorables"? Oh yes. My Texas relatives subject me to all kinds of little digs and barbs like that to let me know that they're still holding on to that one, and anything else that sounds like East Coast elitism.

+1

Women should not hunt.

[Anonymous]

I’ve never even been to Texas, but chiming in to say that even if completely unrealistic, this show was f-u-n! I’m pleasantly surprised in this climate the show made so much fun of conservatives, red state politics, so on. I also was surprised at the amount of sex. I loved the over the top clothes and attitudes, and the mocking on the Cambridge couple (stuck up and boring northeasterners). Fun summer watch!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm a 7th generation Texan and I just barely got through the first episode. Women do not talk crassly like these characters -- at all. The only times I've seen anyone wear cowboy hats at a party were Texas-themed parties and once at a small town dance hall. I know women who own guns, but I don't know any who actually hunt. That's something for their husbands to bond over. I have a massive family and only four of my male relatives hunt.

What did they get right? Texans are friendly and gracious to strangers and newcomers, including those of non-white races. (In fact, they go over the top to prove they're not racist while supporting racist policies.) Women make more of an effort with clothes, hair, and make-up and it's not this stereotypically tasteless way of dressing. The ugly residential architectural styles, although that's improving. The green landscapes of East Texas dotted with oil pumps. The way that men control the women in their families. Dermot Mulroney is on pitch. He reminds me of a few of my males relatives, unfortunately.

That dig about "she thinks we're deplorables"? Oh yes. My Texas relatives subject me to all kinds of little digs and barbs like that to let me know that they're still holding on to that one, and anything else that sounds like East Coast elitism.

So you are Mexican? 7 generations ago is a long time.

lol. But them Texans having babies early at 15.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm a 7th generation Texan and I just barely got through the first episode. Women do not talk crassly like these characters -- at all. The only times I've seen anyone wear cowboy hats at a party were Texas-themed parties and once at a small town dance hall. I know women who own guns, but I don't know any who actually hunt. That's something for their husbands to bond over. I have a massive family and only four of my male relatives hunt.

What did they get right? Texans are friendly and gracious to strangers and newcomers, including those of non-white races. (In fact, they go over the top to prove they're not racist while supporting racist policies.) Women make more of an effort with clothes, hair, and make-up and it's not this stereotypically tasteless way of dressing. The ugly residential architectural styles, although that's improving. The green landscapes of East Texas dotted with oil pumps. The way that men control the women in their families. Dermot Mulroney is on pitch. He reminds me of a few of my males relatives, unfortunately.

That dig about "she thinks we're deplorables"? Oh yes. My Texas relatives subject me to all kinds of little digs and barbs like that to let me know that they're still holding on to that one, and anything else that sounds like East Coast elitism.

LOL wha5 planet do you live on?

Texas women have guns like they are candy

Maybe in the country? I grew up in Houston and I have never even touched a gun. No one in my immediate family hunts ir owns a gun. so it's not accurate that everyone in Texas has a gun like candy whatever that means.

[Anonymous]

I have been to TX several times in various parts. They don't all have terrible Texas accents.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I have been to TX several times in various parts. They don't all have terrible Texas accents.

Read recently how almost 50% of people living there were not born there, so that's why.

Plus the homogenization of society via the internet and social media means everyone is losing their regional dialects and starting to all sound the same.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I have been to TX several times in various parts. They don't all have terrible Texas accents.

Read recently how almost 50% of people living there were not born there, so that's why.

Plus the homogenization of so

ciety via the internet and social media means everyone is losing their regional dialects and starting to all sound the same.

I read something similar recently.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I have been to TX several times in various parts. They don't all have terrible Texas accents.

Read recently how almost 50% of people living there were not born there, so that's why.

Plus the homogenization of society via the internet and social media means everyone is losing their regional dialects and starting to all sound the same.

I grew up in Houston in the 80s, when there weren’t many transplants. Even back then, only Texas from small towns and rural areas had accents. My grandparents grew up in Texas and they didn’t even have accents.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I have been to TX several times in various parts. They don't all have terrible Texas accents.

Read recently how almost 50% of people living there were not born there, so that's why.

Plus the homogenization of society via the internet and social media means everyone is losing their regional dialects and starting to all sound the same.

I grew up in Houston in the 80s, when there weren’t many transplants. Even back then, only Texas from small towns and rural areas had accents. My grandparents grew up in Texas and they didn’t even have accents.

Because most transplants move to cities, hence why cities tend to have a homogenized and "neutral" sounding accent.

[Anonymous]

I was born in and grew up in Texas. Never held a gun in my life. Someone who met me recently said "where's your accent? I'd have thought you were from Connecticut."

Everyone knows that "big" is a thing in Texas. If I got in my car in Houston and drove to El Paso, it would take over 10 hours. If you got in your car in DC, you'd reach Toronto in that amount of time, or Chicago going west.

How many different accents and regional cultures would you encounter in all that driving?

You just cannot generalize about Texas. It's a large and an incredibly diverse place. It's why you see the flag and the stupid Texas-shaped memorabilia. It's a way of unifying (some would say imposing conformity on) a vast territory with different ethnicities and cultures.

[Anonymous]

Such a stupid, cheesy, trashy show. Yet still I watch.

[Anonymous]

Loved this show. Such a great binge.