“The Baldwins” is desperate to make the Baldwins appear normal

ALec Baldwin has led many lives in public, every stranger than the last. He had a typical climb to fame and ended in the course of the 1980s from soaps to prime time-time to cinemas. Soon he was an A-list hearing breaker; A 1990 TIME Profile, which praised his combination of beauty and brain, ran with the heading “The Hunk von Red October“And in UnsuspectingThe slang term for a hot guy is Baldwin (ie Alec and his three looking brothers). When he was out of old age from his leading era in the middle teachers, Baldwin parodyed his alpha-male person as playful 30 rock‘S Imperious Network Exec Jack Donaghy. And in the 2010s he alternately controversial and opposed the controversy, organized a talk radio show, thrown a gay slur in a paparazzo and defended his Spanish accent of his wife born in Boston and spent Donald Trump out SNLand – extremely temporarily – public life in a widespread life new York Cover story.

Then, in 2021, Baldwin was on the set of an indie film, rustIn which he also served as an executive producer, as a prop, with which he started samples, killed Halynama Hutchins. Although the weapon was to be loaded with “Dummy rounds”, it actually had living ammunition. A tragic accident that was primarily a wake -up call after security of weapons in the entertainment industry. The shootout also started Baldwin in a highly politicized, year-long involuntary homicide case. Although a judge rejected it in the middle of the proceedings in July in July, Baldwin’s reputation became as unstable as it was before that rust Disaster remains in the flow. So he could use really good advertising these days. This is probably the reason why a man with three Emmys is now reinventing himself as a reality TV star.

The BaldwinsPremiere on February 23, is not just a reality show; It is a TLC reality show. Executive for Rubbernecking Unscripted Tariff Like 90 -day fishingPresent My 600 LB. LifeAnd Here comes Honey Boo Boo-In contrast to the self-confident, rich Docusoaps in the Bravo-Stall-Hat The former Learning Canal Baldwin as a patriarch occupied in one of his many shows, the GAWK with large families. He and his above -mentioned “flowing” Mrs. Hilaria Baldwin have seven children under the age of 12. (Baldwin’s oldest child, 29-year-old Ireland Baldwin, whom he denied as 11 years old in a voiceemail Alec & Hilaria Plus 7. And complains that the show – which the couple also counts as executing producers – is obsessed with the fact that it makes the Baldwins appear like normal people to forget to be a bit interesting.

Children are everywhere in the series premiere that was the only episode for a pre -demonstration. The typical scene finds Alec and Hilaria, who try to have a conversation in the spacious apartment with five bedrooms, which is nevertheless too small for their brood, such as the descendant game and screaming and harassing them at their feet. The children are cute! In an interview paired with film material of a family trip to the hairdresser shop, which feels as deliberately as everyone Sell ​​sunset Broker open, he describes the four boys as “gang”. After the summer haircuts have been reached, the hardened parents invite the children, various pets and a few nannies who play a suspicious subordinate role in two cars on the show to shift to their home in the Hamptons. Alec grew up on Long Island and has had this property for 40 years. Hilaria informs the audience as if it were like Baldwin in East Hampton that it is like Bruce Springsteen in Asbury Park.

Because if there is one thing The Baldwins I would like to impress ourselves, it is such that the Baldwins gives nothing strange or privileged or otherwise suspicious suspect. Hilaria touched the media tower for her accent and repeated that she grew up bilingual. And she shows self -confidence when she admits that she understands why she, a yoga teacher 25 years her husband’s junior, was referred to as gold graves at the beginning of her relationship. But the truth is when she met: “She had what she had and she was happy,” says Alec. If at all, he condemned her to live in the tabloid. Also: “I don’t actually understand what a prenup is,” laughs Hilaria. Whether you believe that it is not as important as the decision to refute the prevailing story so violently.

This agenda is in dealing with Alec through the show, which despite the combative tendencies, which is too obvious, as a good guy as a good guy to deny, even more striking. “Can he be a Curmudgeon? Absolutely ”, Hilaria allows. But “Alec understands the world.” Words that she uses to describe it again in a single 41-minute episode belong: funny, friendly, handsome, intelligent, generous, tender. If his shortcomings and their extremely minor differences appear, they always serve to underline the purposes of how the Baldwins are. A discussion about Alecs OCD is paired with the film material, which cleans up the family’s shoe piles. At some point he complains that he and Hilaria used to be collaborative parents, but now she only says NO him. Wives, are I right, guys?

What you say about rust Is so carefully formulated, so intentionally to recognize their recognition that Hutchins and their family were the true victims of the incident that it could have been written by a crisis. But the burden that the case has taken on the Baldwins is noticeable and perhaps the most authentic element of this snoozy information about a reality show. The premiere closes only 10 days before the process; “I’m happier when I sleep as if I’m awake,” says Alec. Then he appeals to a question that is safe in the minds of the audience and observes this 66-year-old an attempt to perform endurance parents who would exhaust a man of half age in an entrance flash. “Why did I have seven children?” He asks Hilaria. “To carry me and her through this situation.” It is an answer that is endangered and mentally complex enough to enable a show that really humanized the Baldwins instead of just annoying us about how normal they are, like a toddler that pulled his father’s pants for attention .