It's shows like this one that suggest to me that I'd have no business running a television networks. Well, this one, plus all the others in the "let's gawk at the impoverished hayseeds" genre. Half of the audience is shitty human beings getting off on the feeling of superiority they get from watching Red Staters…

I thought the film was overlong, aimless, and more than a little boring. All of its characters are irredeemable misanthropes that the film barely even tries to make likeable or relateable. The Scorsese aping was hammy and incessant, and the script is a clunker. The only character I gave a shit about was the small…