Is it just me, or is the majority of network television drama filled with terse, short bursts of dialogue that is just concise enough to get the point across without having any extra flavor? And that bit of "flavor" that is added for "character development" is so clunky, obvious, and dripping with a hackneyed screenwriter imprint that it's almost embarrassing?
Every time I pass a TV that is broadcasting anything in this house, it's either this type of thing, old sitcom reruns, or one of those shows that exploits bottom-of-the-barrel humanity screaming censored obscenities at each other about how "You ARE the father!"
Being inundated with this in passing day in and day out is making me lose my faith in what passes for entertainment for the masses in this country. It's kinda making me lose my faith in this country as a whole. Rape, child molestation, brutal murder, and mental illness are all on display on a regular basis and are taken as par for the course or as a matter of fact. When did we become this nation? When did this kind of thing become acceptable "escapist" entertainment?
To quote from my usual source when I make one of these topics (Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy's always-timeless "Television, Drug of the Nation")...
Televison, visual reflector or the director?
Does it imitate us or do we imitate it?
Every time I pass a TV that is broadcasting anything in this house, it's either this type of thing, old sitcom reruns, or one of those shows that exploits bottom-of-the-barrel humanity screaming censored obscenities at each other about how "You ARE the father!"
Being inundated with this in passing day in and day out is making me lose my faith in what passes for entertainment for the masses in this country. It's kinda making me lose my faith in this country as a whole. Rape, child molestation, brutal murder, and mental illness are all on display on a regular basis and are taken as par for the course or as a matter of fact. When did we become this nation? When did this kind of thing become acceptable "escapist" entertainment?
To quote from my usual source when I make one of these topics (Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy's always-timeless "Television, Drug of the Nation")...
Televison, visual reflector or the director?
Does it imitate us or do we imitate it?
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