I know, it’s very easy to accuse Storage Wars of jumping the shark at numerous other locations, but hear me out. The show’s undoubtedly campy, and sure there’s at least five different instances where a former show member, or an A&E person, or someone else loosely associated with the show has talked about how fake it is, and how doctored the lockers are, and how there are so many planted items in them. But I don’t care, I still liked the show, and it was always a great way to kill 22 minutes at a time.
The show then hit a massive speed bump when it became apparent that for whatever reason, show member, Barry Weiss was leaving the fold. The writing was kind of on the wall at that point, and the show was already beginning to become unraveled with the firing of Dave Hester, and the constant incorporation of other “buyers” like Nabila Haniss, the fat German guy with the dumb-as-a-brick wife with huge tits, and Ivy Calvin, with Barry becoming absent from time to time. And the season finale episode that was a clear eulogy to Barry’s time on the show had me wondering if the show was ever going to come back, at all.
