Los Angeles -- Bertha Hofer deserves to be one of the summer's biggest, if unlikeliest, TV stars.
In the narrowest sense, she's yet another working mom opening up her life to the camera. But Hofer is part of an unusual and intriguing world, a small Montana religious commune depicted in National Geographic Channel's "American Colony: Meet the Hutterites."
Hofer, 52, a widowed mother of three balancing her religion's strict tenets with her children's hopes for the future, is a focus of the series. Her unvarnished and soulful face, the kind that cannot hide its heart, recalls the careworn migrant mother in Dorothea Lange's classic 1930s Depression-era portrait.
"Atlanta `Housewives' they're not," David Lyle, the channel's CEO, said of Hofer and the other Hutterites depicted in the 10-part series airing 10 p.m. Edt Tuesdays. "When you look at Bertha, she's a very good, committed member of this community, and she's struggling...
In the narrowest sense, she's yet another working mom opening up her life to the camera. But Hofer is part of an unusual and intriguing world, a small Montana religious commune depicted in National Geographic Channel's "American Colony: Meet the Hutterites."
Hofer, 52, a widowed mother of three balancing her religion's strict tenets with her children's hopes for the future, is a focus of the series. Her unvarnished and soulful face, the kind that cannot hide its heart, recalls the careworn migrant mother in Dorothea Lange's classic 1930s Depression-era portrait.
"Atlanta `Housewives' they're not," David Lyle, the channel's CEO, said of Hofer and the other Hutterites depicted in the 10-part series airing 10 p.m. Edt Tuesdays. "When you look at Bertha, she's a very good, committed member of this community, and she's struggling...
- 5/29/2012
- by AP
- Huffington Post
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