Todd and Gwen Graves, founders of the Baton Rouge based Raising Cane's chicken finger empire, appear on Fox's "Secret Millionaire"

I don't watch "reality TV" very often. I tend to loathe it actually. But every now and then something that isn't total dung comes along and makes it onto the airwaves, and it appears that Fox's philanthropic Secret Millionaire is one such show.

I sought out the show on Hulu after getting a few emails from readers saying that the series' second episode featured Todd and Gwen Graves of Baton Rouge, founders of Raising Cane's. I love Raising Cane's. I'd give a reach-around for Caniac Box right about now in fact, but that's neither here nor there. In the episode in question, they get sent to live in a FEMA trailer in Buras, the south Louisiana town where the eye of Hurricane Katrina made landfall in 2005, posing as an ordinary couple just there to do volunteer work. When you get past the cheesy ass theatrical techniques that Fox employs to ratchet up the drama, tactics that have become the hallmarks of all things slapped with the Fox label, the show makes for pretty compelling television. And yeah, I cried, sobbed like a small child who'd lost a puppy in fact. Whether or not the show touches you the same way it did me is debatable, after all, I do have some pretty strong emotional ties to the area featured in this episode. So yeah, here it is, enjoy...



A side note...The South Plaquemines High football team was featured in the show, a school and team whose struggles were chronicled by Jere Longman in a series of reports for the New York Times. Just in case you're interested.