Ma's Roadhouse (2010– ) User Reviews

Gee. Another one.

[15231 · 23 September 2010]

Let's see. "Ma" knows the cameras are present because the show's producers want her to be loud and opinionated and half drunk. She knows she won't get on the air or get paid if she isn't that way. She obliges.

The situations presented for the audience are obviously scripted/contrived to give her as much opportunity as possible to demonstrate just how loud and trailer-trashy the woman can be, and how (mock)exasperated or foolish/bumbling the rest of the "employees" can appear.

The "characters" patronizing the bar are blatant in their purpose to be outrageous, sleazy and stereo-typically "biker".

Yep. Another "reality" show designed to produce cheap situation comedy/drama for the lower intellects who really believe all this stuff is happening spontaneously before the cameras.

Sadly, it just might be a hit.

The real America

[cameronteague · 7/10 · 26 April 2012]

I am going to stick up for this show. We watched fascinated, while on holiday in the Maldives last Christmas, as Ma retook her driving test at age 70 and blew cigarette smoke at the examiner and tried to take a can of beer in to the car. We don't get this show in the UK and for once as far as we are concerned, it actually made American people look semi-interesting! Of course it's staged in many ways, but that's what 'reality' TV is like! I think this show gives us, on the other hand, a realistic picture of just how mundane and dull the lives of most Americans are. Finally, whatever anyone thinks of Ma, as vulgar as she is, she still has a large extended family of all the people around her who love her and not everyone can say the same about themselves, can they? Credit to the lady where it's due.