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The Duggar Effect: The End of Hicksploitation TV

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After years of mining “real America” for conservative families to exhibit at the reality TV zoo, it’s time to stop exploiting and oversimplifying the heartland for entertainment.

Kevin Fallon
Kevin Fallon 

Senior Editor, Obsessed

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There’s nothing I hate more than when TV lives up to its bad reputation.

In the wake of the revelation that Josh Duggar, the eldest of TV’s most famous litter of children, molested

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Kevin Fallon

Kevin Fallon

Senior Editor, Obsessed

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