If you have happened to turn on MTV this month you may have noticed a new show that doesn’t involve the drunken adventures of Snookie, jwow and the Situation. This new show is called the world of Jenks. This documentary series explores the lives of twelve different people who lead completely different lives. My favorites include a surfer, a poker player, and a professional MMA fighter. I love the show because these people are completely different than I had expected. They all have problems and so much more to their lives that anyone could ever see on the surface. The show is only a half hour show so it keeps you intrigued the whole time and doesn’t drag on like some other documentaries.
Andrew Jenks the star of the show is a twenty four year old award winning filmmaker. He got his start doing documentaries at age nineteen when he dropped out of NYU to live in a nursing home. Yes, I know you are thinking he is a little younger than most people who need assisted living but he wanted to make a documentary on what it would be like to be around people near the end. The documentary was called room 335 and it was extremely successful winning Jenks awards at the Cannes film festival. This caught the eye of MTV and World of Jenks was the result.
The World of Jenks is on MTV on Mondays at 10pm. Its gives such an interesting in depth view of peoples live that you would never get to see anywhere else. Oh and I almost forgot when you are looking through the channels to see when the next World of Jenks Episode is on, make sure to avoid watching the Jersey Shore at all costs.
Here is the episode on rapper Maino
I like it when people give a leg up to other programs/music/whatever in their blogs. Your review makes me definitely want to watch The World of Jenks; on the other hand, a show about being in a nursing home may hit too close!
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