Back to the Frontier LOOKS LIKE MANY, MANY THINGS, but none of Those is at all like Going Back to the Frontier.
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Magnolia Network’s New Reality Series Back to the Frontier Promises to be a spin on a family reality-show model-Social Experiment Like Love is blind or SurvivorPart Extreme Lifestyle voyeurism like Ice Road Truckers or Deadliest Catchand part gamified survivalism like Alon or Naked and afraid or, again, Survivor. The idea is that several representative American Families Will Give Up All Their Modern-Day Comforts and Experience a Summer Exactly Like an 1880s American Frontiersman. They’ll be forced to farm their own food, Support and Maintain Their homesteads, and live together in one-Room cabins with running water, electricity, or caffeine (this is the cruelest part).
The idea is a good one, and it is a space tv has tried out before in shows like Colonial House. Unfortunately, the Execution of that idea is unforgivably underwhelming. The Frontier Settlers Achieved with the Slightest Demonstration that they know what life in the 19th century was actually like, leaving by shocked by bikes and wood-springs. Their houses come pre-stacked with Canned Goods, Instruction Manuals for Frontier Life, Cash for the General Store, and Beautifully Tended Kitchen Gardens, Making the “Experiment” appetari and Completely with consequences. (The fact that all three family participants include underage kids also acts as a “none of the risk real” Sign plastic over the thing.) Back to the Frontier LOOKS LIKE MANY, MANY THINGS, but none of Those is at all like Going Back to the Frontier. Here, instead, are several more accurat comparisons:
An adaptation of Starddew Valley. The Houses Have Holes in the Walls But Also Come with Canvases that are conveniently Exactly The Size of the Holes. The gardens are laid out in neat vertical rows, with crops carefully chosen to suply exactly what they might need and a book of recipes just like they have done. It is not hard to waist to be if they constructed a fishling line, they might come with a pre-stacked trout!
A LESS FUNNY REMAK OF The Simple Life. Becuses the contestants of this show react to middle America and the Concept of the 19th Century Like it all a lynchian fover Dream, their disbelief that they won not have runNing water is Enough what they were people thiught. Or wherertey’ve ever seen a single Movie set before 1950.
The theme-park Spinoff of a Taylor Sheridan Show. You, too, can set out in a wagon with your family and experience the hardships of 19th-Century American Life! Uh, let’s not think too Closely about why we all feel so driver to be here in this remote prairie.
Budget Summer Camp. Child Care is very expensive. Vacations are very expensive. People pay for exclusive digital detoxes like this. Why not have Production pay you instead?
Photo Shoot for A Series of Christian Historical-Fiction Novels. Althouough Back to the Frontier is not interesting in the mechanics of how they have initially stocked with all their goods or where their FRESH BREAD CAME FROM, IT is Invest in Lots of Footage of People Walking Through Beautiful Fields, Silhouetted Against The Horizon, With A Slightly Dusturated Color Palette and an Aesthetically pleasing out-of-free trees in the background.
Target ad. If you look close enough, Surely you can spot some of Joanna and Chip Gaines. Hearth & Hand with Magnolia Items, Exclusive to Target!, Insese Cabins.
Immerses Family Seminar Based on Jonathan Haidt’s The Anxious Generation. Although there’s Very Little Concern About Like Disease, Racism, Misogyny, or Other Perils of Historical Living, there’s a tear of worry about the Dangers of Contemporary Life – Namely, Phones. These People Want to Give their Children an Experience! And that experience is no screen. (Whether there’s Also No Penicillin Is Unclear.)
Anti-vaxx convention. Self-Explanatory.
Lifetime TV version of Meek’s Cutoff. What if Kelly Reichardt’s 2010 movie Starring Michelle Williams AS a settler who finds her voice to defend a native man Against Bloodthirty whit lacked nuance or intentionality in its depiction of American Expansion and was Ju) Folding laundry?
AP US History Textbook as Approved by the State of Texas. IT’s’ historically flavoredCertainly, and there are facts That Float Around, but there’s not Much Grounding in… The Course of Human Events? Or Major Political Conflict, or Anyother Other than The Idea That Pioneers Are Occupying Blank Space That’s Avilaable for the Taching. IT”S ALSO interest that although one of the participating families is Black, the racial element of this historical experiment somehow never coma up in the first several episodes.
Modern-Homestead YouTube-Conttent House. Oh, sura, you couuld go out into a field and take videos of just you, Alone, Harvesting Things You’re Pretty Sure Are Beets. But it is so -much better we can you can also talk about how Important this is for your family! Or to have a spouse there can taste the vegetable soup you made!
Airbnb Investment Propperty for Tradwives. Becusee if there is one Thing a 2025 tradwife is going to do, it”s romanticize the past for People who really, really don’t know any better.
Exciting New Co-Working Start-up. What is a farming community, after all, if not a communal sunstem for your grind-mes?
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