At first when I saw the title and looked at the promo pictures I honestly thought that 60 Days In was a new drama series. I’m talking about a fictional drama series. But I was wrong. In what appears to be one of the most daring reality shows to ever hit television, 60 Days In is a new docuseries that follows an absolutely radical (more to the point insane) prison reform program that was conceived by Clark County, Indiana, Sheriff Jamey Noel.
Noel realized that he inherited a jail rife with corruption and anarchy. He needs to figure out how to settle things down. So what does he do? At first Noel staged raids in the prison to get narcotics out of his jail. However, problems persisted. Noel assumed that both prisoners and guards were in on the schemes to bring drugs into the jail. So when all else failed he came up with something that’s almost straight out of the movie Brubaker (a film starring Robert Redford who plays a prison warden who first poses as an inmate to see what’s going on in a jail that’s mistreating its prisoner).
The idea is to recruit normal, law-abiding citizens to go undercover in this very dangerous prison rife with drugs, violence, and lawlessness and have them operate as informants. Seriously are you kidding me? Noel selects seven individuals to take on the job.
Let me just reiterate that this is a reality show, not a drama series. It appears that A&E has really outdone itself. Didn’t this used to be a classic movie channel? Check out the trailer below
60 Days In premieres Thursday at 9pm on A&E
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“Didn’t this used to be a classic movie channel?”
That would be AMC. A&E used to have that show Biography and stuff like that.
Also, AMC also does show movies still. The name of the channel is technically “American Movie Classics” and they don’t exactly show many American Movie Classics that much, unless you consider the Jurassic Park movies to be classic films. It used to be stuff like Casablanca, African Queen, etc. Now programming is all about getting people to watch your channel, which is why there are so many reality series now. Because people watch, and all of these channels want a piece of that pie and try to outdo each other with how far they can go. And it works. How many seasons has Naked and Afraid been on now? Married at First Sight, all the fake rich housewives shows, etc. People watch.