“The Thompson/Shannons are the anti-Kardashians – an unprivileged and guileless family that gets along. … They’re not in denial of their problems, but they’re not defined by them, either. … Their antics offer a counterweight to the jealousy, striving, and backstabbing of the Housewives. And they defy the tropes assigned to their many female reality-show peers: the slut, the fame-seeker, the betrayer.”