Little rant about television
Last night I was watching the season premiere of The Bachelor in Paris. This show, like the others before it, has a strange appealing quality but at the same time is also very repulsive. It sucks you in -- you have your favorites and the people you don't like and the one you want to see win. But when I really think about it, the show has very little redemptive qualities to it. The women all get jealous if he's spending a lot of time with one girl over the other, each week he has to send one girl back to the states, all the dates are elaborate and extravagant, and at the end he's supposed to fall in love, but until then, he's seriously dating multiple women at the same time. I think it's all about drama.
I will say it - this Bachelor is rather attractive, 33, and a doctor. But these women they bring in are all gorgeous too, and some of them are my age. Most of them are in their mid-twenties.
I couldn't imagine myself or anyone else I know on a television show like that. Bleah. Thank goodness I'm perfectly content right now. :-)
Most of the shows coming out this time around aren't very quality either. I watched the Book of Daniel and it was awful. I feel like they could have done better had they not dumped every single issue a family could face into one concentrated location. You've got the adopted son from China running off and having sex with a sixteen-year-old girl, the gay son (who seems to have the best relationship with his parents), the drug-dealing daughter, the father of the priest (who is a bishop) having an affair (with another bishop), the mother of the priest having Alzheimer's, the brother-in-law running off with the church money, the wife of said brother-in-law having an affair with a woman, the catholics involved with the mafia....etc....oh, not to mention the fact that the priest is addicted to pain-killers. But you get the picture.
I watched Emily's Reasons Why Not to kill time. Funny, but pretty inappropriate as well. She dumped this guy because she assumed he was gay -- he liked cooking, didn't want to sleep with her, etc...and it turns out that the guy is a virgin and a Mormon. But there were all these assumptions about what normal dating behavior should be, and that's disgusting. Bleah. TV these days....
I will say it - this Bachelor is rather attractive, 33, and a doctor. But these women they bring in are all gorgeous too, and some of them are my age. Most of them are in their mid-twenties.
I couldn't imagine myself or anyone else I know on a television show like that. Bleah. Thank goodness I'm perfectly content right now. :-)
Most of the shows coming out this time around aren't very quality either. I watched the Book of Daniel and it was awful. I feel like they could have done better had they not dumped every single issue a family could face into one concentrated location. You've got the adopted son from China running off and having sex with a sixteen-year-old girl, the gay son (who seems to have the best relationship with his parents), the drug-dealing daughter, the father of the priest (who is a bishop) having an affair (with another bishop), the mother of the priest having Alzheimer's, the brother-in-law running off with the church money, the wife of said brother-in-law having an affair with a woman, the catholics involved with the mafia....etc....oh, not to mention the fact that the priest is addicted to pain-killers. But you get the picture.
I watched Emily's Reasons Why Not to kill time. Funny, but pretty inappropriate as well. She dumped this guy because she assumed he was gay -- he liked cooking, didn't want to sleep with her, etc...and it turns out that the guy is a virgin and a Mormon. But there were all these assumptions about what normal dating behavior should be, and that's disgusting. Bleah. TV these days....