TV: signifying nothing
Day 01 - A show that should never have been cancelled
Day 02 - A show that you wish more people were watching
Day 03 - Your favorite new show (aired this TV season)
Day 04 - Your favorite show ever
Day 05 - A show you hate
Day 06 - Favorite episode of your favorite TV show
Day 07 - Least favorite episode of your favorite TV show
Day 08 - A show everyone should watch
Day 09 - Best scene ever
Day 10 - A show you thought you wouldn't like but ended up loving
Day 11 - A show that disappointed you
Day 12 - An episode you've watched more than 5 times
Day 13 - Favorite childhood show
Day 14 - Favorite male character
Day 15 - Favorite female character
Day 16 - Your guilty pleasure show
Day 17 - Favorite mini series
Day 18 - Favorite title sequence
Day 19 - Best TV show cast
Day 20 - Favorite kiss
Day 21 - Favorite ship
Day 22 - Favorite series finale
Day 23 - Most annoying character
Day 24 - Best quote
Day 25 - A show you plan on watching (old or new)
Day 26 - OMG WTF? Season finale
Day 27 - Best pilot episode
Day 28 - First TV show obsession
Day 29 - Current TV show obsession
Day 30 - Saddest character death
Hrm. Surely nobody's expecting me to like Sex and the City or Grey's Anatomy. Or the large swath of reality TV. In that subset, Jersey Shore is particularly awful, not just for its implicit advocacy of the lifestyles of its participants but for propelling said entities into some semblance of that modern fame of the famous-for-being-famous variety, and Auction Kings...what is this I don't even. Or that subset of CBS comedies that boil down to "dopey unfunny comedian with hot wife in wacky domestic situations" which garners unthinkable ratings via...I don't know, channel inertia or something. Or whatever Seth Macfarlane's newest iteration of his animated family comedy is.
No, to achieve the true singularity of my loathing, it has to encompass the full gamut of hatred. Smugness. A laugh track. Hideously annoying and appalling behavior masking itself as merely idiosyncratic. New-York-City-centricity to the exclusion of all else. And, worst of all, wasted potential. I realize this makes me the exception rather than the rule, but I hate Seinfeld with a burning fiery passion. Maybe this is because the one time I saw him on Letterman (when Dave was at home waiting for the cable) he was still unknown but still unrelentingly smug and pretentious. And not particularly funny, except for one bumper car joke.
But, as before, the threshold between "most loathed" and "almost most loathed" is very thin. And I have enough loathing of current TV to go around.