CMT’s World’s Strictest Parents — by far the most gripping title in the whipping-bad-kids-into-shape sub-genre of reality TV — is stopping by the Cleveland area for its second season.
For those of you too busy watching Glee or Jesery Shore to tune-in, the premise is simple enough: the show gathers up the troubled, mouthy and rebellious, and ships them to strict households for an episode-length-stay.
Drama that it is, the show boils down to headbutting between the bratty imports and straight-backed, laces-tied disciplinarians, culminating in a standard feel-good milk and cookies breakthrough before the credits roll.
This article appears in Oct 6-12, 2010.