NotDreaming

I'm a little discouraged by the new season of TV shows starting this week. It's nothing new, but it just seems to be getting worse. Why are most shows crime oriented? I mean really, is it only entertaining if the show is about someone (or multiple someone's) being brutally murdered, including grizzly scenes and a veritable "how to" for every psychotic wanna-be? This is entertainment? If it doesn't involve a court room, police station, morgue, or hospital, it's not worth watching?

It's probably hypocritical of me to bitch about this since I'm just as guilty of watching these shows as your average couch potato. (What else is there though? The non-music slut-show on MTV? The mind-numbing sensationalistic rehashing on CNN?) But still.... What happened to the idea that TV was supposed to provide some entertainment along with the nightly mortality report (aka-the nightly news)? I already know that life sucks. I don't want to see the dredges of humanity on my TV every night when I can just as easily go into any city or super store parking lot (or some days, just outside my door) and watch the freak show. I don't want it on every channel too. What's wrong with these TV execs? (or whoever these people are who choose the "must-see" shows) Do they have nothing of substance to choose from these days?

And while the more gore-filled shows aren't usually shown during the dinner hour, their syndicated reruns are. Yuck. The irony here is, I do like some of these shows. Damnit.