A&E: Rodeo Girls- A Cowgirl Reality Show

Source:Share TV- The cast of Rodeo Girls. 

"Darcy, Jessica, Megan, Marvel and Barb compete male-dominated rodeo events, they are barrel racers, charging their steeds around barrels. Should they knock any over, five seconds are added to their time. The first episode has the ladies in Arizona, to compete in a pool of 120 racers for prize money that will only go to the best 12 racers." 

From Share TV

"Jealousy rears its head when Barb beats Darcy and takes first place in a barrel race."

Source:A&E- Cowgirl Barb West. 

From A&E

Maybe I should say reality show in quotes since what's called reality TV is not very real at all. We all know now that the cast members are encouraged to act a certain and act out. Instead of a film crew following people around to see what they're really like in real-life. But for what's called reality TV in Hollywood and New York, Rodeo Girls would qualify as reality TV that's about cowgirl and professional female rodeo cowgirls and watching them compete around the country and what life is like for them and they're not competing.

Source:TDS- A&E's Rodeo Girls 

Rodeo Girls for me, is like a soap opera but perhaps without a script. I'm sure the cast members are encouraged to act a certain and to even act out, but they're not told what to say. In a TV soap opera that has writers and actors, etc each cast members are given a script and told what to say. Rodeo Girls, is like a soap opera, but without a script. It has all the tension and competitiveness, backstabbing that would see on General Hospital, Days of Our Lives, The Young and The Restless, whatever soap you want to use as an example, but the show is unscripted. But the cast is strategically picked out to create tension and entertainment on the show. To put people in place who perhaps don't even respect each other, let alone like each other and they're not only competing with each other, but have to interact with each other on the show.

The real drama on this show is between Darcy Lapier ( perhaps the best looking cowgirl in the world, fake or otherwise ) and the rest of the cowgirls the show. Darcy Lapier, is essentially know for being a one-time actress who I guess never got her acting career going in the 1980s, but was able to get involved with some high profiled men in Hollywood and in business. She was married briefly to Jean Van-Damme, businessmen Ron Rice and Mark Hughes, She's essentially made her career and living by marrying up and being married to successful men and then being able to live off of them while married and then divorced. Gold digger, would probably be an accurate way to describe Darcy Lapier. A very beautiful, hot even, very sexy, very adorable woman, but who has never had much of a career of her own.

And that is where the tension is between Darcy and the other rodeo girls on the show like Barb West who are real rodeo and cowgirls in real-life, who are professionals, who don't have their ex-husbands alimony or some trust fund to live off of and have to do well in this business in order to support themselves. They don't see Darcy as one of them or even as a real cowgirl and Darcy is a bit of a verbal punching bag for them and she sees herself as better than them, because she's not a working stiff and lives the life of a reality TV, Hollywood celebrity traveling around in limos and and her own jet. Who has now decided that she wants a career for herself and is struggling to make it as a professional cowgirl.

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