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Originally Posted by da Sage
Actually, the country wife was herself the pig farmer...not the husband, as far as I can tell. My take is that it's her home business, that (theoretically) allowed her to spend more time with her kids.
I think Jehan had the right idea when she was singing to the pigs. That is the perfect way to combine creativity and mundane chores. And I get the idea that Jehan would be too "busy" and "important" for "ordinary" household chores whether she were a chef, a stockbroker, or a politician. The attitude is about who she is inside, not what she happens to be doing for a living.
It's interesting, I'm pretty sure both the wives get whatever they decide to go after. They just had different ideas about how to live their lives.
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I think they each could have been doing anything and that the show was basically about bringing balance to two families who were basically out of balance, but I could be wrong. It could also have been about the sensationalist elements that would bring people back to watch such a show week after week. The whole thing just seemed so.... exaggerated or something. I had never watched the show before and most likely will not watch it again. All of those "reality" type shows never seem quite real to me...