Thursday, April 21, 2005
Blech!
So, as the result of a certain set of circumstances, Bill and I ended up watching American Idol the last couple of nights. I had forgotten, in my total avoidance of reality tv, how atrocious this show is. Now granted, I did my best to keep my nose in my book, but the irritating flash and noise from the show drew my attention inevitably. I so don't care. These folks are terrible singers, choosing awful songs. Simon's cracks are as canned as I've ever heard lines, and he sits there and waits patiently for the first guy's middle-of the-road-trying-to-be-constructive comments to end, then Paula Abdul's overly cheerful, cheerleader-y (think too much pep from HS) unfailingly positive comments to end, so he can use the line he's pulled off his cuff for this performer. I mean literally off his cuff, or the leg of his jeans, where he's written them. These shows are, to me, the tangible results of the dumbing down of America. Congratulatons.
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1 Buffaloes were bitter enough to post comments:
I couldn't agree more with both of you. In fact, when i saw an article in EW about upcoming reality shows, it scared me so much I had to write my own article: http://patangello.blogspot.com/2005/04/unreal.html