Mama June: Road to Redemption

 

 

Mama June is back. She and her slime ball boyfriend Geno are seemingly clean, but have obviously traded in their addiction to drugs for food. June has allegedly blown through her entire fortune (est. at approximately two million dollars), but has somehow managed to purchase a luxury condo in Florida to be near her daughters who have evidently hightailed it out of Georgia as well. June is ready to re-enter her daughter’s lives, that is Lauryn ("Pumpkin"), Alana ("Honey Boo Boo"), and Jessica ("Chubbs"), whom we forgot even existed, but apparently decided to get in on the action this season (still no word on eldest lost long daughter Anna Marie ("Chickadee"). None of the daughters will answer June’s (incessant) phone calls or text messages, so June turns to her therapist who suggests June back off and stop hounding her daughters. The therapist feels it is better for June to focus on her sobriety, and assures her that her daughters will come around when their ready.

 

 

Pumpkin and husband Josh are having marital issues because Josh took a job three hours away and is only home on weekends, and even when he is home, they’re always arguing. Pumpkin is feeling overwhelmed and Josh is fearful that Pumpkin is “changing” because of her weight loss. All this fighting is really upsetting Alana who has been living with Pumpkin and Josh while June and Geno toured the country’s casinos.

 

 

Speaking of Honey Boo Boo, the former Toddlers and Tiaras star is now 15 years old. and has really had to grow up fast.  As if the poor kid hasn’t had enough trauma in her life, she is now dealing with the lonely isolation from being away from he friends due to the pandemic. In the final minutes of the premier, June gets a call from her lawyer informing her that she and Geno are due in court the next morning. They claim they don’t know why, but June fears they may both be facing YEARS in the slammer for their past drug use and God only know what else. Should I add that it wouldn’t be the first time for either?  Mama June: Road To Redemption airs Fridays at 9pm on WE tv.