Like my Channel V music rant from a while back this story begins with me eating lunch at the university cafe being forced into watching the pay TV. I've mentioned before how I think TV is a dying medium desperately trying to reignite our passion and watching pay TV only serves to magnify the issue. In other words pay TV is shit. If you've seen something on commercial television that you thought was bad then chances are theres a whole entourage of bullshit just like it on pay TV.
Now one of the new tricks that television is slamming down our eyeballs is what I like to call the Bitch Genre. The Bitch Genre has the following generic signifiers
- Girls fighting
- Girls crying
- Girl-on-camera expositional bitch sessions
- Judges trying to be edgey
I'm sure you know what shows I mean here, these shows are self-serving, egotistical, rating grabbing rubbish. I remember seeing an episode of America's Next Top Model in which Tyra Banks spent a considerable amount of time patting herself on the back for coming up with the idea of a photoshoot in which the models emerge from the water. What the fuck Tyra, are you kidding me!?! Practically every fucking magazine I've ever opened in my life has done that, I would go trying to patent that shit just yet. And How many seasons of
Idol do we have to endure before we realise that not a single talented person has come out of that fucking competition? Can't anyone see these shows for what they really are? They get a bunch of sexy young morons and lock them into a competition so that they may humiliate themselves in a desperate attempt to grab the spotlight; and for what? So that we develope a correlation between success and incompotence? So we can be reminded that no matter how hard we try there's always someone who's far better and most likely a complete, narcisistic cunt? Who needs this shit? I don't. Most people watch shit like this because it's on while they eat and unfortunately that makes shows like these far more popular than they ever deserved to be. It's one of those things where people say to me "Don't pretend you don't know this show, I know it's bad but everyone watches it" which is a question I seem to cop alot in regard to Friends and Neighbours to which I reply "I don't!" I recently watched the complete series of Yes Minister and Yes Prime Minister which is extremely clever and, at the time, very popular. People were astounded that a show so intricate and complex with it's portrayal of political life could make itself available and enjoyable to so many people. The show's creator was questioned on the matter and to completely misquote him said "give the public more credit and stop broadcasting shit" and I completely agree.
P.S. He didn't really say that part about broadcasting shit
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