Duffy Family Reality Show Savaged by Brutal Reviews

The Great American Road Trip/YouTube The reviews are in for Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy’s “The Great American Road Trip,” and they’re horrible.

The Duffy family’s long-awaited series, which features Duffy, his wife, Fox & Friends weekend co-host Rachel Campos Duffy, and several of his nine children embarking on a noncontinuous trip across the United States, has seen very low views online, and now it’s getting even worse reviews.

While companies that Duffy’s department oversees shelled out hundreds of thousands to fund the reality show on the transportation secretary’s family road trip, The New Yorker’s Jon Allsop gave a brutal take on the series suggesting it may not have been worth it.

“If his show makes a compelling case for anything, it’s less screen time,” Allsop wrote.

Allsop said he was confused by the series as “the show, as a whole, never seems to figure out whether it is primarily travel or reality, or whether the scenery or the people should be the star.” “The creators could have done more to bring out the gorgeous landscapes that the Duffys visited; they could, at least, have fed us some dumb challenges, with alcohol or not.

Ultimately, I came away with no idea who the show is supposed to be for , although, if its paltry early view count is any guide, the answer might be ‘no one,’” he wrote.

“‘The Great American Road Trip’ certainly had me wondering whether the point was to promote American travel or Duffy himself,” he added.

Allsop points to one moment in the show in which Duffy speaks with his daughter, Paloma, about her college options.

While Harvard is on Paloma’s radar, Duffy, a graduate of St.

Mary’s College of Minnesota, which boasts a 92 percent acceptance rate, proclaims that the Ivy League institution has “professionalized, figuring out how they can take good, young girls like you, and I think corrupt their minds.” Rachel also offers some of her own advice, saying she always told her children, “My job isn’t to get you into Harvard—it’s to get you into heaven.” To the Harvard bashing, Allsop sarcastically wrote, “By this point, I was getting a little worried about the separation of church and state.

Then I remembered, with relief, that the series was funded by corporate sponsors.” Allsop also highlights how the project was funded by private donors, including industry groups that Duffy’s department oversees, like Boeing and Toyota, which each shelled out $1 million.

Other sponsors include United Airlines, Shell, Royal Caribbean, Enterprise, and Lyft.