Entertaining and insightful
As a reality show addict, I prefer this UK version to the US gypsy wedding shows. The American programs feel a bit contrived and too dramatic for my taste. On the other hand, the British show includes some cultural information, the bigotry the travelers and gypsies face and some insight into family life. I want to know and understand the people not just watch a wedding. I hope there is a season three.
infuriating yet morbidly fascinating...
This documentary by no means really reflects on the lives of true Roma Gypsies, but rather 'Irish Travellers', a distinct sort of gypsy that despite this documentary, is not a representative of the entire Gypsy culture.
As you can tell by the title, this documentary focuses a lot on weddings, though you also get frequent glimpses into other aspects of these people. It is intensely patriarchal - spousal abuse is more rife, and girls are made to drop out of school young (in their early to mid teens, often) to stay home and take care of the house and younger siblings. Yet they never say what happens with the mothers, where are the mothers while their elder daughters take care of the rest of the kids?
Wives are not allowed to work, since it is seen as shameful for a husband to have a wife with a job because it supposedly signifies that he cannot support his family. Ahh, male chauvinism and cowardice at its finest! So obviously, the mothers are not out working, which...
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