Couldn't resist watching the follow-up episode to last week's "Trading Spouses" and then looking around the web for some more info on the exasperating Ann Marie Burgess. Of course, Fox (and the Burgess's) had manipulated us: Rob and Ann Marie were all but divorced when they did the show. It was all in a letter on Rob's website. (The letter has vanished. Someone must have bought the movie rights. Surreal.)
Over the 2 episodes Ann Marie was amusing (she's kidding us, right?), baffling (could she really be that detached?), frustrating (stop it, Ann Marie, just stop it), sad (can't she see she's torturing everyone around her?) and tragic (the thought of her two sensitive daughters facing another decade with this troubled, troubling mother).
We've all met Ann Maries but never see them portrayed in movies or on TV. Maybe nothing but a reality show can capture such subtle insanity.
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