That couple was definitely the kind who spent money as a distraction. Wife gets stressed… remedy was to take a cruise to the Bahamas. Their ethic made me sick and they deserved to have their little (err big) house of cards crumble.
I too thought the show should have focused more on the culture of debt servitude rather than spending so much time talking about the tactics of debt collectors. That’s a completely different topic and it was quite repititive: okay, they’re mean and not acting legally. Let’s talk about debt.