Watch Moonshiners Season 2 Episode 8 Troubled Waters Online free and Download Moonshiners Season 2 Episode 8 Troubled Waters Episode show Think the days of bootleggers, backwoods stills
and "white lightning" are over? Not a chance! It's a multi-million
dollar industry. But perhaps more importantly to the moonshiners, it's a
tradition dating back hundreds of years, passed down to them from their
forefathers. It's part of their history
and culture. While this practice is surprisingly alive and well, it's
not always legal. Discovery Channel's all-new series MOONSHINERS tells
the story of those who brew their shine - often in the woods near their
homes using camouflaged equipment - and the local authorities who try to
keep them honest. Viewers will witness practices rarely, if ever, seen
on television including the sacred rite of passage for a moonshiner -
firing up the still for the first time. They will also meet legends,
including notorious moonshiner Marvin "Popcorn" Sutton.
Moonshiners is an American docudrama television series on the Discovery Channel that dramatizes the life of people who produce (illegal) moonshine in the Appalachian Mountains of North Carolina, Virginia, and South Carolina. The series dramatizes their liquor production efforts, law-evading techniques and life.[1] There have been claims by local officials that the show is not what it portrays to be. Virginia authorities have stated that no illegal liquor is actually being produced by the people depicted in the show. The Virginia Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control said in March 2012 that, "If illegal activity was actually taking place, the Virginia ABC Bureau of Law Enforcement would have taken action."[2]
Portions of the show that feature Marvin "Popcorn" Sutton were taken from a documentary film by Neal Hutcheson. Hutcheson's documentary was filmed in 2002 and released the same year with the title This is the Last Dam Run of Likker I'll Ever Make.[citation needed] In 2008, a version of the documentary that was edited for television was broadcast on PBS[citation needed] and the Documentary Channel[3] with the title The Last One, and it received a Southeast Emmy Award in 2009.[4] Sutton was arrested in 2007 for illegally distilling liquor and felony possession of a firearm, and was sentenced to eighteen months in jail in 2009. He subsequently committed suicide rather than report for a federal prison term that was scheduled to begin in a few days.
The show's first season premiered on December 6, 2011, and its second season premiered on November 7, 2012.
