Yesterday I spent most of my afternoon at a friend’s house watching football. A very relaxed, entertaining, late summer kind of day; three of us pretty un-motivated, sipping cold beers and watching the games. It was particularly fun for me because I rarely watch television. We’ve got one here at home, but there’s no antenna so we don’t even pick up network TV (I think NBC audio comes in, but the picture sucks); we just rent movies.
Since it’s September, I was treated to all of the ‘watch our new program!!’ ads…
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WTF is passing for entertaining TV? There must be like five new shows (and that’s just on CBS) that all seem to have the same lame melodramatic detective stories with cheesy plot contrivances.
The ad for one (Cold Files, Cold Cases, something like that) included a scene in which the woman who I assume is the star of the show is going through a room filled with boxes of old, abandoned cases. The guy in the room with her (I’m assuming he’s the less emotive, cynical sidekick who seems tough and uninterested on the outside but really has a heart of gold) says, “smells like something died in here,” to which she responds, “yes, these files!”
:rolleyes:
Another (maybe the same show, I don’t know), had Creedence Clearwater Revival’s Have you Ever Seen the Rain playing, as the detective stands in the rain, the film shooting in slight slow motion, and she’s obviously really feeling strongly about something or other. Maybe she’s upset because she just had to send a poor starving single mother to prision for killing her ex-husband, even though the ex-husband was abusive.
Then there was an ad for The Handler. A new show about some hip guy in a quasi-detective/1920s style news reporter outfit, who, so the narrator of the ad tells me, works training FBI agents to go undercover to bust big-bad drug lords and such. Most of these detectives he’s training seem to be women. And, so we’re told, the handler controls every aspect of their lives, “personal and private” (oooh ooh ooh ooh… like their sex lives? Are they implying sex!?!? I can’t wait to watch the FBI handler handle all those sexy FBI agents!!! Sex sex sex sex SEX! Or, at least, maybe the women will have to sleep with hot, sexy drug dealers and mob bosses in order to extract information. I’m fairly sure I saw at least three different sex scenes in the ad).
So, I guess all I have to say is, I’m glad I don’t watch much TV, if only for the fact that I don’t have to be subjected to stupid ads about stupid programs like these.