True Life: I’m Deaf

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sarahchristine:

Watching this right now while packing, getting shit done and it’s so touching. True Life remains the best show on MTV.

Much like the titles “least sartorially-challenged Florida fan” and “smartest cast member of The Real World”, “the best show on MTV” doesn’t really carry that much weight anymore.

I understand this argument. So! I’d like to counter it with my opinion that True Life is one of the best documentary-style shows on all of TV, neck-in-neck with Intervention for its storytelling and pacing and definitely covering subject matter that ranges wider than any other docuprogramming out there. (It doesn’t just go all sensationalist like, say, Secret Lives Of Women, but even the most banal-seeming episodes, like the Staten Island one, are compelling.)