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Staged? Of course it is.


I've seen a couple of eps. of this show and of course it's staged to some point -- all reality shows are.

But let's us just say, not everybody is cut out to run a bar, because it's hard work and it demands a very high discipline from all involved, but mostly from the owner(s) of the bar.

Just saw the last ep. with the soldier and what a mess. He had no self-discipline at all, no business sense and no drive to get his bar up and running as a proper business.

He reminded me a lot of the owner of the local Inn in my (very small) hometown -- he was constantly drunk, always hitting on the ladies (with considerably luck I might ad!) and gave more beer and booze away than he got paid for (some local drunks had tabs of several thousand $) and it was a health risk to order any kind of food from the very dirty kitchen. But he managed to survive because of a very large inheritance, that gave him the freedom to do exactly what the hell he wanted, and he did. He died at 55 drunk as *beep* but very happy.

This guy don't have that luxury, and he have to step up his game, otherwise he's toast.

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That is why some classify it as a "semi-reality" show.

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Absolutely. I don't see the appeal but god help me if I criticize it in front of my wife.

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I just watched the new episode out of Albuquerque with that half-ass beach volleyball bar and it was so obvious that the co-owner who turned out to have no ownership at all was put there to create tension. It was cringey just watching the bar owner (the one who did own it) pretend to be angry with his incompetent ex-business partner.

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