The WORST Television Show You've Seen?
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Everyone should keep in mind...there's a difference between 'worst' and 'overrated'.
It has to be one of those original MTV shows. Next...Sweet Sixteen...one of those visual abortions.
It has to be one of those original MTV shows. Next...Sweet Sixteen...one of those visual abortions.
Anyone interested in good and bad TV, I thoroughly recommend Screenwipe (find it on Youtube) and also, if you can access it (UK only I think), 'You Have been Watching' which featured the Swan, Jeremy Kyle, among others that have shown up on this list. I still think the Swan is one of the most morally reprehensible shows I've ever seen clips of.
Oh and as for Red Eye, its like they looked at the Daily Show and thought 'Hey that's popular, if we do a right wing version of it we'll do great! 'But boss, we don't have any good right wing comedians or writers.' 'Why do we need them? its gonna be on at 3am, people won't notice, just get people who can be offensive, so the papers report on it and get us more viewers.'
As for 'Smarter than a 10 Year Old' it works because they're doing the exact same thing that the media do to put down the achievements of today's students.
They're asking adults to know what todays students are being taught, that's like asking todays 10 year olds to work out sums in pounds shillings and pence instead of decimal currency. Most kids today won't even know that there used to be 240 pence in a pound.
You can't judge today's kids based on a 1950 syllabus, just like you can't call 1950s kids dumb for not knowing about ipods and xboxes. (flawed argument but I'm feeling lazy)
Oh and as for Red Eye, its like they looked at the Daily Show and thought 'Hey that's popular, if we do a right wing version of it we'll do great! 'But boss, we don't have any good right wing comedians or writers.' 'Why do we need them? its gonna be on at 3am, people won't notice, just get people who can be offensive, so the papers report on it and get us more viewers.'
As for 'Smarter than a 10 Year Old' it works because they're doing the exact same thing that the media do to put down the achievements of today's students.
They're asking adults to know what todays students are being taught, that's like asking todays 10 year olds to work out sums in pounds shillings and pence instead of decimal currency. Most kids today won't even know that there used to be 240 pence in a pound.
You can't judge today's kids based on a 1950 syllabus, just like you can't call 1950s kids dumb for not knowing about ipods and xboxes. (flawed argument but I'm feeling lazy)
To many terrible shows to answer.
I would have to say most reality tv shows.
They are all terrible...
And not real.
I would have to say most reality tv shows.
They are all terrible...
And not real.
Oh and Big Brother, I have to say, the first series in the UK was a genuinely interesting show, throw a disparate group of people together in a house and watch how they interact.
Then for future series, they either chose people who'd deliberately clash, or for the last few series, just drove up to the nearest nightclub queue and kidnapped the last 12 people standing outside. Its now just a tiresome collection of 18-25 clones, and they're too busy creating storylines for anything real to happen.
As someone who's watched a fair amount of it, in the early days at least, I'm amazed to see just how many times they've had an obviously interesting person in, and then in later series done all they can to keep them out. The sheer pleasure of people like Eugene or that guy who later went on to host Brainiac, and just wanted to talk about science and the like, to ditzy blondes who don't respond to anything until you say 'shoes', was always entertaining. It's culture clash is interesting, not just watching idiots rutting.
What they don't seem to realise, and it was tackled in this weeks YHBW ^, was that tawdry sexual stuff just doesn't have a place on TV any more, unless it is relevant, because unlike 10 years ago, we've all got access to pornography and we're no longer going to watch an hour of crap for a 10 second titty scene.
Then for future series, they either chose people who'd deliberately clash, or for the last few series, just drove up to the nearest nightclub queue and kidnapped the last 12 people standing outside. Its now just a tiresome collection of 18-25 clones, and they're too busy creating storylines for anything real to happen.
As someone who's watched a fair amount of it, in the early days at least, I'm amazed to see just how many times they've had an obviously interesting person in, and then in later series done all they can to keep them out. The sheer pleasure of people like Eugene or that guy who later went on to host Brainiac, and just wanted to talk about science and the like, to ditzy blondes who don't respond to anything until you say 'shoes', was always entertaining. It's culture clash is interesting, not just watching idiots rutting.
What they don't seem to realise, and it was tackled in this weeks YHBW ^, was that tawdry sexual stuff just doesn't have a place on TV any more, unless it is relevant, because unlike 10 years ago, we've all got access to pornography and we're no longer going to watch an hour of crap for a 10 second titty scene.
I would say his problem (and mine) is that you are wrong. Not on whether it sucks (I love it, you don't, fair enough) but your point about it only following two characters (I guess you mean Jack and Kate, who have been conspicuously off-screen for most of season 5) is measurably, provably wrong. There have been dozens of characters over the past few years, the vast majority explored in extreme detail (or does the fact that every major event of Desmond's life over the previous 6 years has been chronicled in flashbacks not count?)kookro said:
If you're going to hate it, hate it for the excessive use of mysteries (which fans, myself included, will tell you is the whole point of the show), hate it for not having the balls to kill off anyone major (last major death I'd say was end of season 3), hate it for having an annoying whiny spoilt ***** (Kate, even the fans dislike her).
Oh, and you can swear on the internet, your mum probably isn't going to read it.