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Those of us who love 30 Rock can’t believe the low ratings that it and its other critically acclaimed NBC Thursday night shows pull. Everyone we know watches, and everyone relates to Liz Lemon. What we forget is that we’re not everyone. It’s probably even a good thing that we aren’t.
Liz Lemon is for those of us who stay at home on the internet on Saturday nights, helping to debunk any theories our teenage siblings’ friends may have had about twenty-somethings being cool. Thankfully we live in an age where somewhat sad, unsocial behavior is embraced by a relatively well-received portion of our culture. Considering that 85% (!) of spring 2011 graduates returned to live with their parents, it’s probably a good thing that there’s some margin of acceptance for drinking alone and acting like our cats are our best friends (although, can I call for a moratorium on that one? Jesus fuck. Your cat is a cat. We get it). Still, while we should appreciate not having to feel too entirely alienated during our time of pathetic, lonely desperation, it’s also for the best that there are still other people out there, living lives completely apart from out internet zeitgeist. It’s a damn shame that they have the power to cancel programs that the rest of us love (COMMUNITY DON’T GO COME BACK INTERNET LOVE COMMUNITY) through sheer ignorance, but without them, we’d probably be somehow even less happy.
(PS I KNOW THAT THIS IS FROM 2 MONTHS AGO BUT IT IS STILL THE WORST LET’S TALK ABOUT THAT FELLOW AWFUL SELVES)
“I love Current TV.” This was a phrase I said a ton from about 2006 to very recently. When the network abandoned their heavy focus on user created content a few years ago, it began to consistently fall further and further down my list of most-viewed TV. I still tuned in for info_Mania, a show created by the creator of the Daily Show, and a few Vanguard documentaries—besides this, however, I lost interest.
Putting the power of TV creation in the hands of the fantastic online community over at Current.TV (now Current.com) was revolutionary and the channel proved to be a vibrant mix of humour, news, and short-form documentaries. All of the content was limited to 5-10 minutes and the network featured a progress bar in the bottom left of the screen.
It was all quite informative, quickly paced, and the idea that anyone could produce content that had a chance of airing on TV was earth shattering—except it wasn’t. Slowly, the channel began to expand into the area of more traditional shows. The peak of this was definitely the Yahoo! Current show that eventually became info_Manai. The deepest darkest valley of Current’s long-form shows consisted of extreme sports highlight packed together in a versy SpikeTV kind of way.
Then last year happened and Keith Olbermann was looking for a new home. That new home would eventually be announced at Current.
I don’t know what the fuck I just watched. It took a season of LOST for me to realize they were making shit up as they went along, this around ten minutes. Mrs. Coach Taylor and Jessica Lange were in it? Also Pulp Fiction’s The Gimp and the Greendale Human Being’s love child? Here’s a list of shit that happens:
- Homages to better movies that have been done by better movies!
- OVERREACTIONS!
- Saying “shit” like True Blood says “fuck”!
- Dylan McDermott masturbates, ejaculates, then cries (and some burned dude see this happen)?
- Dylan McDermott and Connie Britton have an argument about his affair, and his side is that “I cheated because you wouldn’t have sex with me,” and she’s all “What. Is. This. Fuckitude?” because she’s Connie Britton and absolutely right all the time, but then they immediately have sex?
- A teenage girl gets attacked by a grandma goblin that comes out of a strobelight?
- Mrs. Coach Taylor gets raped (?) by the Human Gimp?
- Three different things happening at the same time? So many things! For no goddamn reason!
- Enough jump cuts to make Jean Luc Godard say, “Stop it with the goddamn jump cuts”!
This thing’s just a mess. It’s like God spilled a TV show.
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Gilmore Girls meets The OC meets Grey’s Anatomy.
Spoiler!: Summer Roberts Hart’s dad is not her real dad. She says, “My whole life has been a lie!” and leaves her dreams of cardiothoracic surgery behind with her mother’s limo.
Pass.
