This terrible, terrible show finds its way into my home about once a week. My usual position is watching it out of the corner of my eye while I try to ignore it and go to sleep. Sometimes, however, the story is so compelling that I have to sit up and take notice in spite of myself. For instance, last time on Cheaters, the girl that the cheating husband was two-timing with wasn’t even aware that he was married and therefore felt two-timed as well. As the wife tried to push her and yelled obscenities at her, she pushed and shoved back until she realized that she, too, had been duped by the adulterer. Then they both turned on the husband.
For some strange reason which I will probably never understand because it breaks all reason, she came back to the show a few months later to tell her story.
“After that scum cheated on me and his wife, I moved to Hollywood looking for a break. I wanted to find where I belonged and be an actress. I found out when I got there that you can’t just do that….it was harder than I thought. This guy told me that everyone starts in the Adult Entertainment Business. And I listened to him. And I did some Adult Entertainment. I was so ashamed and embarrassed that I only did it for a few months…like 15 times or something. And then I decided I just couldn’t do it anymore. So I came back home. And now I’m still not famous but I’m happier. And I have a legitimate acting career. I’m in the community theater production called ‘Summer Dream Catchers’ which is loosely based on Bertolt Brecht�s Mother Courage and Her Children and set in Brooklyn.”