A lot of people are saying production โset Angel up.โ As someone with 18 years in TV productionโฆ yeah, kinda...but for the plot ๐
First, the on-screen times were obviously not real. That was for comedy and drama. What did stand out to me was the logistics.
On these shows, production pays for and approves the trips. Period. Flights, lodging, distances, water access. All of that is locked in months in advance. If there were issues, production absolutely knew ahead of time and couldโve course-corrected. They chose not to.
Production also doesnโt just โshow up.โ They sent crew ahead to the fly-fishing spot, set up mics, lights, and filmed the chef and the woman with the cracked phone.
Every filming day has call times and a strict schedule. If they wanted everyone together, they couldโve made that happen. If they wanted more time, they couldโve pushed flights and added hotel days.
Where Angel gets โset upโ is that production leaned into being a reality show when chaos benefited them (sign of a good reality producer). That said, Angel canโt fully blame production for how everything unfolded.
What I really think happened: Bobby controls the home, filming there was likely blocked, and production had already had to pivot multiple times with Angel. Once frustrated, they saw an opportunity to drop the cast in the Colorado mountains and let the mess play out.
And honestly?
From a reality TV standpointโฆ mission accomplished.