This is and was a strange reality series when it came out. First of all, it is strange that the superstar Whitney Houston would participate in something as private and revealing as this series. Rather, the truth is that it foreshadowed a coming tragedy that deprived us of Whitney. It also shows how painful and difficult it is for celebrity children to live up to expectations and to never have their famous parents all to themselves.
For me, the series is primarily a unique and unusual insight into an unusual family life. How does a superstar live in an ordinary Atlanta neighborhood? Can she even be private? The answer is to a very small extent.
Because as Whitney herself cries out in frustration in one episode: can I just be allowed to be a normal person? The series shows that it was no longer possible for either her, Bobby or her daughter Bobbi Christina. The series provides an insight into what it's like to be pursued and sought out regardless of whether it's Atlanta or London. But it also gives an image that superstars and celebrities are just people too, made of flesh and blood. With a need to just be allowed to live their lives exactly as they want. But I fully understand that she allegedly declined to participate in season 2, and with that the series was history. Because nobody was interested in seeing anything more of Bobby, right?