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Gene Simmons: Family Jewels (Season 6)
By: ChipRawks Date: August 7, 2011, 10:51 am
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Trailers
Season 6 Promo
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Interviews
Shannon Tweed Walks Out On Gene Simmons During Interview (The
Joy Behar Show)
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From walk-off to wedding
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Episodes
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/>1: Breaking Up Is Hard To Do[/URL]
[URL=
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/>2: KISS Your Family Goodbye[/URL]
[URL=
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/>3: You Always Hurt The Ones You Love[/URL]
[URL=
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/>4: Blood Is Thicker Than Hummus[/URL]
[URL=
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/>5: The Demon Does The Holy Land[/URL]
[URL=
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/>6: The Demon Salutes[/URL]
[URL=
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/>7: Mr. Tweed Goes To Canada[/URL]
[URL=
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/>8: The Kids Are Not Alright[/URL]
[URL=
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/>9: Belize It Or Not[/URL]
Episode 10: The Answer
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Episode 11: Tracy The Wedding Planner
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Episode 12: Till Death Do Us Part
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Episode 13: Wedding Boot Camp
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Episode 16: The Demon Says I Do? (No Available Link)
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Re: Gene Simmons: Family Jewels (Season 6)
By: ChipRawks Date: August 7, 2011, 10:51 am
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Added Episode 1: Breaking Up Is Hard To Do
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Re: Gene Simmons: Family Jewels (Season 6)
By: ChipRawks Date: August 7, 2011, 11:14 am
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Breaking Up Is Hard To Do
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This was a riveting episode from start to finish. I am very well
aware that Family Jewels is 95% staged and scripted from
everyone involved. Having watched pretty much the entire run of
the series, I have been able to distinguish what is staged and
what is real within the show. That brings me to this episode:
Breaking Up Is Hard To Do. We all know the history of Gene and
his live in girlfriend Shannon of 27 years, the mother of his 2
kids and all the stuff she has to deal with regarding his
infidelity.
This episode finally addresses her problem with him and his
cheating ways and forces him to go to a shrink and start working
on himself and his relationship with Shannon. As I said before,
I can pick out what is staged and what is real. Or so I thought.
Shannon's emotional break down is definitely real and it's all
captured on camera. But there are a couple of instances that
scream Red Flags with the legitimacy of what is going on. Case
in point, Gene is asked by his therapist that he should invite
Shannon to his next session so that they can begin to work on
their problems as a couple. Fast forward to Gene at home asking
Shannon to join him at his next session.
Fast forward to Gene's next session with Shannon sitting by his
side. Here's the problem: Gene and the Therapist are wearing the
exact same clothes as before, with sunglasses in his breast
pocket. Hmmm.....Still not convinced? Another instance is when
Gene comes home to find that Shannon has finally moved out of
the house and he goes into their bedroom looking for her. The
camera is positioned in such a way so that Gene initially walks
pass the bed with the letter on the edge...stops....does a
slooooooow turn and then picks up the note and discovers it to
be her goodbye letter. This screams staged in that he is hitting
his "mark".
So, if this is in fact staged I will endorse Shannon Tweed to
get an Emmy nomination this year as she pulls out all the stops.
But I do think her end of it is legit. Real or fake, this is
still a fun show to watch.
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Re: Gene Simmons: Family Jewels (Season 6)
By: ChipRawks Date: August 8, 2011, 12:09 am
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Added Episode 2: KISS Your Family Goodbye
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Re: Gene Simmons: Family Jewels (Season 6)
By: ChipRawks Date: August 8, 2011, 12:13 am
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KISS Your Family Goodbye
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Watching this episode and more specifically, watching Nick, you
get the sense that he really is having a hard time with his
parents splitting up. There are a couple of times that you can
see that he is trying so hard to keep it together because he is
definitely on the verge of crying whenever he brings up the
topic of his Mom, which made this a bit harder to watch than the
last episode. So, with his reaction to what is going on, I will
say for this particular incident, it's definitely real. This is
good, addictive TV at its finest.
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Re: Gene Simmons: Family Jewels (Season 6)
By: ChipRawks Date: August 9, 2011, 11:12 am
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Added Episode 3: You Always Hurt The Ones You Love
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Re: Gene Simmons: Family Jewels (Season 6)
By: ChipRawks Date: August 9, 2011, 11:19 am
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You Always Hurt The Ones You Love
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Staged or not, this is pretty damn entertaining and addictive.
But I will say this, they editors of the show make it appear
that Shannon left Gene, stayed with her sister Tracy, and then
goes back to Gene to reunite. And then after that, Shannon and
Gene are back in the Therapist office willing to work on the
things that need to be worked on to go forward. The problem is,
they are using the same footage from the previous time the two
of them were in the office. You know, the one where she gets fed
up with his ways and walks out of the meeting and then him all
together. So yeah, the bulk of it is scripted IMO.
Anyway, somewhere during the middle of Episode 1 I got to
thinking how they would end the show and it's a no brainer if
you ask me. What's the one thing that everyone thinks Gene would
never do? Yep. Get married. Mark my words, that's how they will
end the series with Gene and Shannon finally tying the knot.
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Re: Gene Simmons: Family Jewels (Season 6)
By: ChipRawks Date: August 10, 2011, 11:42 pm
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Added Episode 4: Blood Is Thicker Than Hummus
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Re: Gene Simmons: Family Jewels (Season 6)
By: ChipRawks Date: August 11, 2011, 12:40 am
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Blood Is Thicker Than Hummus
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That was about the coolest episode of the series ever, which
takes place entirely in Israel as Gene, Shannon and Nick head
back to his hometown for the first time in 51 years when he left
as a kid to go to America. Having read
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/>and Make-Up[/URL], I had a pretty good understanding of how he
felt about his hometown and what it was like growing up and also
about how he didn't really know his Father and the resentment he
had for him for feeling abandoned.
So, this episode opened up a floodgate of feelings that Gene had
repressed for years and when he finally came face to face with
the knowledge that he had a Half-Brother and 3 Half-Sisters and
countless nieces and nephews, it hit him hard. I've never seen
Gene weep like that....ever. It was surreal. Seeing him visit
his Father's Grave site was absolutely heartbreaking. This
episode didn't feel like a typical episode, but more like an
hour long documentary with countless photos from his days as a
child back home. This was 100% real. What a fantastic episode.
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Re: Gene Simmons: Family Jewels (Season 6)
By: ChipRawks Date: August 12, 2011, 6:49 am
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Added Episode 5: The Demon Does The Holy Land
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