- Network: National Geographic
- Series Premiere Date: Jul 17, 2012
- Season #: 1
American Gypsies
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3.6
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Generally unfavorable reviews- based on 7 Ratings
- Summary: The docu-series focuses on the Johns, a family of Romani (as known more commonly as gypsies) who own several psychic shops in Manhattan.
- Genre(s): Reality, Documentary
- Show Type: Between Seasons
- Season 1 premiere date: Jul 17, 2012
- Episode Length: 60
- Air Time: 09:00 PM
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91Strong personalities evoke the hold of the old, the tug of the new, and that intersection's human fireworks.
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70Where American Gypsies shines--and it really does shine here and there--is in the glimpses we get of the internal system of justice that's developed among a people who don't trust government, and family rituals like the "red-dress ceremony" with which the Johns family welcomes its newest member.
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58Gypsies is just mildly entertaining, mostly because the family drama seems staged.
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30American Gypsies, the second deplorable show about this subculture to come along in three months.
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