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Texas Ranch Hands--On PBS now!

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Kd5000:
I wonder if the success of Brokeback had anything to do with this show being on now? I'd love to see some kind of Jack/Ennis-esque "thing" develop, but I won't hold my breath!

I wouldnt' exactly bring up BBM with these guys. Ranch hands aren't usually attuned to many aspects of pop culture, but there's no gettin around BBM.

I didn't see that PBS show. However, if it's set in West Texas, it's a very conservative part of the United States. Most frustating to drive 700 miles (San Antonio to El Paso) and the only thing on the radio is Rush Limbaugh.  :-\ No doubt he's brought up that movie.

SFEnnisSF:
I watched Monday's episodes, and have Tue and Wed's recorded.  Tonight is the finale.  I'm gonna be doing a marathon viewing.  Ian is a hottie!  ;)

TJ:
There is abolutely no connection with the PBS-TV network's "Texas Ranch House" reality show and Brokeback Mountain. PBS has done similar things before in the USA and they borrowed the idea for the formats from a British TV reality series.

I have been watching the whole series, didn't record it; but, I find a lot of what they are don't contrary to the documented facts with which I am quite familiar about the old West in the 1860s.

In the TV show, the real boss of the ranch activities is the rancher's wife and she was not even given that assignment by the shows producers. When the ranch had a Sunday Morning church service, the woman (a Baptist in real life) was in charge of the whole thing. A real rancher who had church service in his own home in those days would not likely have had a woman to even speak, especially his wife.

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