I recently caught the last half of one episode of Porter Ridge while channel-surfing from a hospital bed, don't have cable at home and I'd never heard of this show. Slightly medicated, I watched thinking; I can't understand what that guy is saying, he appears to be babbling about some modifications to a stripped-down truck, then - oh, that's why there's subtitles, and then the unexpected appeared - a very bad Elvis lookalike. As I caught on to the antics of the eternally-topless Terry and his cohorts, I found myself smiling throughout the rest of the episode. It seems the cable world abounds with "reality-based" offerings, this is the only one I've come across which I feel inclined to seek out again sometime. It comes across as an obvious parody of the genre, well aware of its own deliberate silliness. Interesting that a redneck-themed show be set above the Mason Dixon Line (Indiana?), good to give Tennessee and Kentucky a break now and then. Hope this fun show succeeds, it has great potential I think.
Review of Porter Ridge
