# TelevisionWithoutPity.com to close

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/televisionwithoutpity-com-to-close/684706>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [March 27, 2014, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/televisionwithoutpity-com-to-close/684706 "2014-03-27T18:29:29Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![storyteller0910](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecae2f/32.png) [@storyteller0910](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/storyteller0910)\
**Post date:** [April 9, 2014, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/televisionwithoutpity-com-to-close/684706/101 "2014-04-09T20:03:08Z")

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> [@Acsenray](#):
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> Done in sufficient detail and with intelligence, wit, and articulation – I love hearing shit taken down and destroyed, even if I like it. Half the fun of liking something is hating it, from my point if view.

I understand what you mean, and early on I think they did that quite well. But eventually it got to the point where the whole shtick was just being snarky for its own sake, so the recappers would invent criticisms that weren’t fair - and most importantly, weren’t really funny or insightful - because just admitting that, hey, _yeah, that worked pretty well_ wasn’t part of the mission statement anymore.

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**Author:** ![Acsenray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/acsenray/32/4519_2.png) [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)\
**Post date:** [April 9, 2014, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/televisionwithoutpity-com-to-close/684706/102 "2014-04-09T20:05:28Z")

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I don’t recall experiencing that. The recaps I read praised the show when it was good. In fact, Jacob, who was criticized above, often openly celebrated the shows in his recaps. Jacob was their last great recapper.

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