Anybody watching "Black Gold" on TruTv?

[jerp]

In the same vein as Deadliest Catch and Ice Road Truckers, this series follows several crews of roughnecks on rigs in west Texas.

http://www.trutv.com/shows/black_gold/

It's not bad other than the constant attempt to over-dramatize, which is common for those kinds of shows. It sure brings back memories - I worked on rigs in Texas and Alaska back in the 70's and I think it captures rig life pretty well. The type of characters who do that kind of work have not changed a bit!

[Bullydog]

We saw it for the first time the other night. It was the episode where they took the guy out for his birthday...drank way to much.....and he got fired the next day. Pretty good show so far.

[W-L-F]

very cool show

[Artos]

I like it better than the others so far...

...maybe cuz it's Texas and /or I worked oil patch for a very short summer right after highschool. Also ties into our oil prices & kinda neat seeing it come from our back yard.

Those guys work their tails off.....

[SMUMan02]

Love it. You can catch it in HD (if that matters to you) on TNT. Though it comes on TNT at very odd times and not the same time as TruTV.

[Peyton]

I've seen all the episodes so far. It's a cool show!

[Randy]

Brings back memories of working in worm corner paying my way thru college. Watching that show reminded me how why I studied so much.

[jerp]

I get a kick out of watching it with my boys - they find it hard to believe that their gray headed old Dad, now a desk-jockey in a starched shirt and tie - used to do that. Of course since I was just a roustabout (or worm) what I did most days would not make for good television - standing over a mud hopper for 12 straight hours, lots of scraping and painting, swamping and stacking pipe. They did let me work the floor when we were tripping - very exciting at first but mostly exhausting and dangerous.

[tagman]

I"ve been watching it and enjoying it. I used to work on workover rigs. Never made it to the big iron.

[Flame-Tamer]

My guys and me watch all these at the FD. We have come up with a lot of spoof shows like I35 truckers. The desperate money making trips on the worst moving freeway. Basically a lot of filming with the truck in park. Then the excitement. We move along at 5 miles an hr for 3 minutes. It should be a realistic look into the truckers life. Destinations include Waco from Ft Worth. The totals at seasons end should be like 2 trips. Ha ha.

Hank

[AtTheWall]

I'm catching it.

[RLoving1]

If they keep filming on a Big Dog rig they will get to film a death! Last year most the rig deaths were somehow related to them.You pull up to a convience store and watch...well service crews are hispanic crews,drilling crews are...well lower end caucasion(white trash).Those cars the crews drive to the location are most the time rolling pos's.I worked on rigs in high school...I was impaired on canibus those years and didn't know any better!

[Mayhem]

love that show, they are some tuff sob's

[quarterback]

I like the shows too. Reminds me that there is no place you can go on a rig and not get something nasty on you. Roughnecks "twisting off", everybody smokes, pulling those crazy dirty clothes out of their locker to wear again, pipe dope in the samples, bit trips right before you get to the pay zone.......man, I miss it!

[jerp]

Roughnecks "twisting off", everybody smokes, pulling those crazy dirty clothes out of their locker to wear again, pipe dope in the samples, bit trips right before you get to the pay zone.......man, I miss it!

There's a lot of honest, hard-working fellas in the oil patch but some are "rough as a cob" - hard livin', hard drinking and will fight at the drop of a hat. I worked around Odessa one summer and this college boy knew he was in a different world when the lunchtime discussion centered on how old you were when you finally whipped your old man's azz for the first time!