Artist: Gene Simmons
Title: “Family Jewels” Season One (Signature Series Collector’s Box)
Label: A&E Networks
Release Date: 12/19/2006
Genre: Documentary/Reality
Rating: 4.5/5
Watch out Ozzy Osbourne because here comes Gene Simmons with a reality show about family life of his own and based on the content it is sure to set a higher standard for such a program which is more than your own was ever able to do. Like most of you readers out there I sat through “The Osbournes” reality show every week and was glued to the television for the duration of the series. When I watched this program I was fascinated at how insane life seemed to be in that not so little mansion of theirs in Beverly Hills, California and more surprised at how much the buffoon it made Ozzy to be and how his children seemed so unappreciative of the amazing things that had been put in their lives. In that, I hardly missed it when the show stopped filming. When I heard that Gene Simmons, noted co-founder of KISS, and his family would be doing one of their own my expectation levels rose to greater heights about the kind of show that he would deliver. Lucky for all of us I was on target with this assumption as while he is one of the more worldly of Rock Stars and a definite wunderkind in the realm of business dealings, his family life is quite normal and in tune with most regular people. Yes this is all going on in an opulent mansion as well but the larger sets of circumstances that happen to him are the same that many of us deal with if we are married and have children. The show finds Simmons and long time partner Shannon Tweed (the beautiful Playboy model who he has been with for decades but never officially married) and their two children, Nick and Sophie. The series is interesting because while possessing the wealth that Simmons had earned because of KISS and all his various business dealings, the family is surprisingly well-grounded and the kids are not as spoiled as we found on Ozzy’s show. The level of appreciation that they have for their good fortune is visible. The secret star of the show is actually Nick because he is often seen busting his Father’s chops or helping to set him up in some fashion when he intervenes too much in the way he lives his life or in that of his younger sister Sophie. Simmons of course shows he can do the same as he entrenches himself in their affairs and sometimes has interesting circumstances become the result. The show airs on the A&E Network and given the positive reception has been renewed for a second and third season at the time of this release for the season one boxed set.
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