# Colonial House 5/17 Premiere **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 18, 2004, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/colonial-house-5-17-premiere/245773 "2004-05-18T15:16:06Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![AmericanMaid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e480ec/32.png) [@AmericanMaid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AmericanMaid)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2004, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/colonial-house-5-17-premiere/245773/1 "2004-05-18T15:16:06Z")
PBS has done it again with another reality show set in 1628. Anyone catch the premiere last night? There are four houses: **Wyers (Governors)** - Texan baptists: husband, wife, two daughters and a son. Plus their servants Paul and Julia. This family drove me nuts with all their God-talk. **Heinz (Lay preacher)** - CA professors: husband and wife (who look like Bilbo and a Swedish amazon swear to God…) Plus their servant Jonathon. I want to be this couple when I grow up. So smart, cute and funny… **Voorhees** - husband, wife and son. Plus the only female non-servant, Amy. I really wanted to like this family but the wife’s moodiness made it tough. **Freemen** - three guys. A shack o’ hotties who can’t cook. The interaction between the colonists and Indians was pretty interesting and probably pretty darn accurate. Initial fear and alarm, then the only “half-breed” in the colony makes nice. The Wyers took the fear and alarm to extremes though, IMHO. I can’t wait to see how the maize crop looks. ---
**Author:** ![Munch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/munch/32/5281_2.png) [@Munch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Munch)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2004, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/colonial-house-5-17-premiere/245773/2 "2004-05-18T15:17:09Z")
> **[Colonial House](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=256818)** > > Was I the only person watching this? I thought the producers had set the show up to have some great conflict within the group. It was going to very interesting to see if they could overcome their differences and pull together as a colony. In case... ---
**Author:** ![AmericanMaid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e480ec/32.png) [@AmericanMaid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AmericanMaid)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2004, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/colonial-house-5-17-premiere/245773/3 "2004-05-18T15:44:48Z")
Crap, can a mod just erase this? I’ll copy my remarks into the official topic.