I liked Honey Boo Boo for the simple fact that it was manky and stupid. It's good "It's Friday night, I've had a shit awful week, I'm going to sit on the lounge for the next five hours with a bottle of rum on one side and a pile of chocolate on the other, and get shitfaced while watching some shit awful tv."
It's so depressing when this sort of shit happens. It's sort of like being a house guest in a beautiful house, with hosts both entertaining and thoroughly respectable, and then you get lost on the way to the bathroom, open the door to a closet by mistake, and next thing you know you're on the ground with a splitting headache and blood all over your face, buried under an avalanche of skeletons.
I disagree with June being stupid. She's definitely uneducated but stupidity and a lack of education don't always line up with each other. She knows exactly where every single cent of her money goes, what it does when it gets there, and how to retrieve both it and any new friends it made when it was gone. Logistically she's a demon and she would make a brilliant dispatcher and leading hand in a high turnover warehouse. She's disgusting in just about all possible ways someone can be disgusting, but she's also ruthless, cunning, and incredibly well organised. There's a saying along the lines of someone needs to be very smart in order to look very stupid. Rate me
all you like, but up close and away from the cameras, June would be frightening in a way that has absolutely nothing to do with the type of fright she causes from a distance. Rat cunning, I think you'd call it.
