Ellen Boucher

I love this show! These are REAL people with real jobs and lives we blue collar workers can relate to. They are strong, smart and determined. Every now and then, tempers flare but these are obviously good people with good hearts. There's nothing phony or plastic about these people unlike on so many other "reality" shows.

Like all of the best shows in my opinion, this show has great characters. The characters, not the plot, are what makes this show work. Each one is complex, several with sympathetic characteristics making them extremely likable while at the same time doing really bad things which rings very true to me. It's hard not to be fascinated by the main character, Murphy. She is rude, crude and extremely self-centered, self-pitying and self-absorbed. We like her anyway, mainly because of her friendships with the few people she actually likes. At the risk of sounding insensitive, she also sucks at being blind. She lost her sight at 14 so presumably she has had at least 10 years to learn how to get around but she's astoundingly bad at it. I have known 2 blind people and although they struggle with many things we sighted people take for granted, they do remarkably well. Murphy... Not so much. That just makes her more interesting and makes this show something to look forward to.