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eleanorjane) wrote2010-06-14 05:53 pm
eleanorjane) wrote2010-06-14 05:53 pm
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That 30 Day TV meme, Day 05.
Hmm, I had this nagging feeling I'd missed a day - maybe I have. Oh, timezones, how I hate you.
Day 05 - A show you hate.
This one is actually harder than I expected because I generally approach media positively, wanting to be entertained, and even when something's not my cup of tea I don't hate it - I just don't want to have to see it.
I do, however, pretty much hate most sitcoms, because they generally rely on perpetrating tired stereotypes that I find dismissive and actively hurtful.
My first thought, though, was Big Brother (specifically the Australian variety, because I haven't seen the other flavours). It was alright in its first season, when it was just a dozen people jammed into a house together for three months. That was interesting, in a sociology-experiment kind of way. These days, though, it's all cheap gimmicks and fake drama and the most annoying television coverage known to mankind.
However, I hate the Biggest Loser more, now I think about it, because it's all cheap gimmicks and fake drama and it's actively damaging, given the likely health impact of all the ridiculous dieting and high-impact exercise, plus the amount of implicit fat-hatred and body normativity and oh look, I guess there are TV shows I do hate after all. (Man, that was a run-on sentence and a half.)
Day 05 - A show you hate.
This one is actually harder than I expected because I generally approach media positively, wanting to be entertained, and even when something's not my cup of tea I don't hate it - I just don't want to have to see it.
I do, however, pretty much hate most sitcoms, because they generally rely on perpetrating tired stereotypes that I find dismissive and actively hurtful.
My first thought, though, was Big Brother (specifically the Australian variety, because I haven't seen the other flavours). It was alright in its first season, when it was just a dozen people jammed into a house together for three months. That was interesting, in a sociology-experiment kind of way. These days, though, it's all cheap gimmicks and fake drama and the most annoying television coverage known to mankind.
However, I hate the Biggest Loser more, now I think about it, because it's all cheap gimmicks and fake drama and it's actively damaging, given the likely health impact of all the ridiculous dieting and high-impact exercise, plus the amount of implicit fat-hatred and body normativity and oh look, I guess there are TV shows I do hate after all. (Man, that was a run-on sentence and a half.)