What do think of School Swap: UK to USA?

Brit here & I totally agree, I understand it was made for TV, but it would have been a better comparison to see them sent to a school in New York (or equivalent) or equally, have them go to/come from a rural school in the UK. They really ramped up the drama over American racism, the racism may not be quite so on the nose here but it is definitely still a major issue - coming from someone who went to a secondary/high school in a predominantly white rural area, with only 3 mixed race kids in my year. There would still be some major cultural differences (guns, religion, etc.) for the TV drama if they did that, but it would be a more fair comparison. And I think it'd be more interesting (at least for me) to watch. A good example is if you swapped Waylon with me when I was 14 you could see the more nuanced differences between hunting and gun culture. My family own a farm which has guns - kept locked away outside, the animals we hunt are inevitably a bit different (rabbits for pest control or pheasants and other game for food/fun). Most different is that it's not displayed or spoken about anywhere near as much as in his family and typically happens less; aside from pest control, my uncle goes out shooting maybe 2-3 times a year. I also just so happen to live right by a military base, so there's occasionally soldiers with guns driving through town and military training going on. Similarly to Arkansas, British city kids would have a culture shock getting dumped with my family, although in comparison to America (despite where I live) I barely see guns and we pretty much never talk about them. You can definitely tell this show was made for British TV. They threw some average English city kids in the most stereotypical (rural south) state they could think of and pretended it was an accurate rep of America as a whole. It sometimes feels as if negative US stereotypes and positive UK stereotypes had a baby in the form of reality TV. But I can't complain too much because I am enjoying it anyway lol