I didn't get to see the show, but I can say these things with confidence:

1. Though not very common, those in severe mania can exhibit psychotic symptoms, i.e. visual and aural hallucinations, paranoia, etc.
2. The lady sounds like my ex-wife, who is rarely depressed (at least as most of us would describe it) and is quite verbally abusive. My ex is Dx'd as bipolar, mixed, and that sounds like the lady on TV.
3. I didn't see the show, but it sounds as if there was little discussion of the depressive side of the illness. That is truly unfortunate, because depression is by far the dominant theme of the disease for most people. I read one source who says that it runs about one month of depression to one day of mania on the average. I think the public hears about the excesses of people in an extreme manic episode, but not the pain of the depressive side of bipolar, the one that makes BP the deadliest mental illness there is.

OK, I'll jump off the soapbox now...

DJ