Cajun Pawn Stars Season One

Fans of the original History Channel pawn shop reality series, Pawn Stars, may be a little put off at just how familiar this southern friend version of the series is to the one set in Las Vegas. Such quibbling misses the point, though. Although the shows may look the same, from the confessional style chats the hosts have with the audience right down to the seemingly endless array of experts at theta command to judge the real value of anything brought into the store, this Cajun version set in the Silver Dollar Pawn & Jewelry Center in Alexandria, Louisiana, is spicy enough to stand on its own. The hosts – Jimmie “Big Daddy” DeRamus and his family – are informative and entertaining, if a little bland, but the singular set of people who wander in to sell everything from a pigmy goat to an actual $10,000 bill more than make up for it in the sheer entertainment quota.