BUCKWILD Recap: The Bonfire of the Hormones

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By Dashley | Friday, February 1, 2013 | 11:17 pm | 7 Comments
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Shain interviews Sevgi about the nature of her relationship with Cara, and asks using the most inelegant questions, ever. For instance: “Ya’ll just friends or ex-friends?” “How’d that seed float?” “Girl on girl love, or…?” He cheers when Sevgi tells him that yes, she and Cara have had sex. In order to prove a point to him, they make out in front of him. I’m just… ugh. No. Ladies, you do not have to prove anything to anyone. Especially not Shain, and especially not the MTV cameras. 

At Casa Gandee, we learn that because Shain’s development was halted around second grade, his parents have to remind him to wash his hands. And his response is to spit into his hands and rub them on his shirt. And then his grandmother helps him to make candy to sell at the flea market. 

I bet that candy is rich and chocolatey, with just a hint of flu virus. Yum. 

At the girls’ house, they’re cleaning up from the party while Cara and Sevgi answer even more really intrusive questions about their love life. We find out that Cara is “the dude” in the relationship, apparently because Sevgi is the dramatic one. Way to reinforce gender stereotypes, ladies. 

Finally, Cara and Sevgi have some private time. They discuss how much they care about each other, and how Sevgi will miss Cara. Sevgi melts into a pool of tears, and tells Cara that she’s in a place where she can go anywhere and do anything, there’s nothing holding her where she currently lives (Arizona.) Cara tells us that she realizes that she doesn’t want to get back together with Sevgi, she wants to move on. Then why did you throw her a big party and make out with her in front of a pervy dude? Way to be gentle with someone’s emotions, Cara. No wonder Sevgi is the “dramatic one.”

Shain’s parents wake him up to go sell the Gandee Candy. He is not too happy to be woken up, because he didn’t get to bed until 5 AM. As he’s getting ready, his mom pulls a bloody bag out of the sink (deer, apparently) and complains that Shain needs to do some dishes. 

At the swap meet, Shain’s parents are doing all the work to help him set up the candy-selling business. His grandmother made the candy. His parents are the ones selling it. So how, exactly, is this supposed to be Shain’s business? People are buying the candy – Shain tells us he made more than $100. I want to yell at his customers to throw it in the nearest garbage can so they don’t get a staph infection, but that’s just me. And all Shain can do is whine to us that none of his friends showed up to support him, especially Cara. Please, Shain. You’re being a hypocrite. You didn’t even want to go. 

Later on at Shain’s house, Joey is encouraging Shain to continue to pursue Cara. He comes up with a plan: take the girls ghosthunting and scare Cara into Shain’s arms. 

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7 Comments

  1. 1
    Ed
    Posted February 2, 2013 at 1:29 am

    I’ll be honest, as a guy, it embarrassed me to see Shain flirt with Cara. That was just sad. Any hook up that happens between them next week, be it a kiss or sex, is going to be just done out of pity. It’s especially lame because Cara’s far from the most attractive of the bunch.

    I also admit that I was stunned to see Shain and his family wearing gloves while making that candy. Even though the promise of seeing Salwa flash her boobs at me wouldn’t convince me to try any of it.

    I went from liking Cara in the first episode to hating her in the second. She was just really rude to Sevgi for now real reason. When describing her as the girl in their relationship, she made sure to say that she was emotional and dramatic and she said them in very cruel ways. Sevgi’s better off IMO.

    I also vote that we include making Salwa a permanent cast member next season too! Far too little of her in these episodes!

    Follow me back Dashley! @ScoglioSpeaks!

  2. 2
    LadyStardust
    Posted February 2, 2013 at 12:31 pm

    Can we just have a reality show with Shain’s family? I’d totally watch a show about Meemaw Gandee’s candy-making business. Najee and Salwa can help too. I love those two. I think they don’t show them as much because all that gorgeousness makes the rest of the cast look bad.

  3. 3
    S-Natch S-Natch
    Posted February 2, 2013 at 1:51 pm

    Anyone else wondering why none of the girls have accents while the guys have to have subtitles? As a Southerner, I call bullshit on the authenticity of the chicks – the guys, however, are like every fella I went to high school with. Tots agree on the Shain fam show – much more authentic than what these chicks are dising out.

  4. 4
    carol
    Posted February 3, 2013 at 12:26 am

    I might be totally wrong, but I really don’t think Cara went out with Sevgi. I think that is a story she came up with for the show thinking it would get her more screen time. It was more like childhood friends and one of them had to move away. I did not sense any romantic feelings between them, even if it was in the past. Their whole discussion of who was the girl vs guy seemed very scripted and rehearsed.

    Overall, this show is not that bad. I would feel differently if they only showed one episode per week. It is also one of the most scripted ‘reality’ shows on MTV I have seen in a long time. Burying money in the yard while your two friends are there, oh and a whole tv crew? Um, even Shane is smarter than that. I do think a lot of the stuff Shane’s family does is true. They are hilarious. Maybe MTV will take a page out of TLCs book and give the Gandee’s their own show like TLC did for Honey Boo-Boo.

    The one thing that has impressed me with this show is the 3D words/chapter titles. They are pretty cool. I know it is basically a new program MTV bought, but you can tell they put some time into it.

  5. 5
    labowner
    Posted February 4, 2013 at 10:37 am

    I am so damn enthralled with these kids. How in the fuck do you forget to take your tent from the camp site?

    Loved the party the girls had when everyone else went camping. Good for you Anna, you deserve a man you are so awesome. And Najee cooks – steak no less. Yummy

    S-Natch I wonder if the girls aren’t more educated than the boys and learned to “lose” their accents. I can hear a slight accent in Anna’s voice.

    Cara was being a typical man in the relationship. She is so stupid she doesn’t see she is taking her anger for Tyler out on her ex?

    Damn season is over next week. I think they are going to do another season since their ratings have been going up.

  6. 6
    LadyStardust
    Posted February 4, 2013 at 11:57 am

    S-Natch: Cara (I think) is the one that goes to WVU, right? Do we know for sure that she’s actually from WV? A lot of my friends went to school there and they have a pretty large out-of-state attendance (and internationals too). She could be from somewhere else, but has lived in WV attending college for the past couple of years. I’m not sure about the other girls though. The rest of the girls had that house in South Charleston in the first episode. If they’re from the city, that may explain the less obvious accent as well. The boys obviously live in the country, so their accent would be stronger.

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    darci
    Posted February 8, 2013 at 1:46 pm

    I dunno what it is about rednecks but they always make a fascinating watch. And of course add the familiar reality formula of a mix of horny attractive coeds and now all of a sudden I’m hooked…plus I’m learning new vocabulary every day.

    Also I thought it was great they played the song “Caged Animals” by Ambassadors when Katie and Tyler go to sleep in their tent and the girls mess with them, because that song sort of describes this show..and probably how Tyler felt in the tent!

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