A thread for non Oprah fans. We never drank the O Kool-Aide.
I never found her show the least bit interesting. Never liked Phil Donahue or Jerry Springer. The entire boo hoo, I’m so traumatized & I need a hug talk show format never did a thing for me. I rather go out in the yard and pick up dog turds. It’s a better use of my time.
For me the sun never rose out of Oprah’s butt.
Any other non-Oprah fans want to join in the celebration? Sadly she’s not really gone. We still got the all mighty O Network to contend with.
There’s plenty of Oprah threads for the O lovers out there if you want to praise her to the high winds. Please don’t rain on this thread.
Well, I’m not much into celebrating because, since I never watched it*, its absence will not really improve my life.
But while I just can’t find it in me to be either sorry or happy it’s gone, I don’t mind toasting its demise with a mojito. Cheers!
*Okay, I watched the Million Little Lies guy’s episode and Tom Hanks jumping on the couch.
I have no interest in Oprah, but I congratulate you on opening your own thread to celebrate her show’s demise rather than threadshitting the threads for people who like her stuff.
Honestly, I’ve paid little attention to Oprah or her show for the past decades. Much like Phil Donahue I made a point to skip that channel in the afternoons.
But, the unrelenting press coverage drumbeat is pretty hard to ignore. They’ve been beating that frigging drum for months now. I’ll be glad when she’s gone and they shut the heck up. Can’t bring up cnn.com without seeing an Oprah story these days. sigh…
I’m sure she’ll just be replaced by some other garbage. It’s not like her fanbase has gotten any more intelligent / employed, and they are gonna need some shit to watch in the middle of the afternoon, damnit!
Good point. Here she’s on from 4 to 5 in the afternoon. If I’m home then I turn on the local news at 4:55. For some reason, the local news likes to start a couple minutes early. That means seeing the closing credits of O’s show.
I guess next week we’ll find out what crap replaces the big O.
If only it were the end of Oprah. Now that she’s no longer committed to a daily show, she’ll have that much more time to horn in on other media. I expect she’ll be self-promoting more than ever, what with a whole network to plug.
I hope I’m wrong, but I doubt it. Her massive ego won’t be able to handle being out of the spotlight for long.
One time, watching clips of the housewives in her audience screaming in adulation at some stupid giveaway (not a car or anything so expensive on this occasion) it occurred to me. This is a cult. The most successful cult in history. There’s no rational reason these women would scream that way over minor crap, they’re totally brainwashed into Oprahism, it’s the only way.
The Sunday paper this week had an Oprah story as the front page headline. Either it was a REALLLY slow news day (week?) or they’ve been converted.
Meh, people seem overly happy on Ellen, too. I think they just think that’s what they’re supposed to do. You only need a few to think that, and everyone else will follow. It doesn’t have to be a cult, just a little bit of a mob mentality that looks good on TV. Heck, you could probably hire people to do get the crowd stirred up.
Anyways, a cult needs seclusion to really qualify. This is just mob mentality. And if the cult was working, why is she having to get her own network?
One of her guests from several years ago was just interviewed on the local NPR station. I didn’t catch his name, just that he was blind and had written a book, and was on Oprah’s show. He said it was obvious that she hadn’t read his book (or even bothered to have someone else read it and tell her what it was about) because all of her questions and comments were irrelevant. He said she didn’t talk to any of the guests during breaks, actually looked away from them.
I’m wondering if, now that she doesn’t have a broadcast show, we’ll be hearing from more people with unflattering things to say about her.
One of the people on the radio program says we need to give Oprah credit for the trend toward less Springer-ish talk shows. I’m going “What?” We still have Springer and Maury and Steve Wilkos and all those reality shows that are nothing but confrontation (some physical). Oprah hasn’t had any impact at all in that area. Just because there’s no hair-pulling on Dr. Phil doesn’t make his “quieter” show any less ugly. Put all your personal issues on TV. Yeah, that’ll fix things.
