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I Like to Watch
Would you rather be a depressed thief, a polygamist or a drunk slacker? The TV gods explore strange new microcosms in search of the next "Sopranos" -- or the next "Jackass."
By Heather Havrilesky [2006-03-05]
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  • Busytown or whatever

    Many years ago, when I was younger and functional, we had a software package for the kids, then small and cute, based on Busytown. Mostly I remember that, unlike half the software we bought for them, it loaded and worked out of the box. And it was cool.

    -- breckenback
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    Saturday, March 4, 2006 09:22 PM

  • Hey. Don't write crap like this anymore.

    Quote:

    "I know that the Morontown of "Team Sanchez" sounds absolutely terrible, and honestly, it is -- so terrible that you can't change the channel, so terrible that after just a few minutes, you start to like it in spite of yourself. This is Idiot Boy TV at its worse; it's what every show would look like if you let teenagers high on airplane glue program an entire channel."

    Unquote.

    We get it. Bad tv is good. Those of us who are-- somehow--able to change the channel are deviant and don't get tv for what it is: our very own tube of huffin' glue.

    -- Hennery
    Sunday, March 5, 2006 11:46 AM

  • Heather H's intros

    Heather H's intros are consistently the most embarassing content on Salon. I am a big fan on incongruous metaphors and wacky and or snarky writing, but she comes off as someone trying to pull off the contemporary critic style a bit too hard. OOOOOOOF.

    -- lukeoneil47
    Sunday, March 5, 2006 08:29 PM

  • Maybe they're running out of ideas

    Three bitchy stressed out women fighthing over one man. And they will be SOOOOO different from one another, as if that's a realistic thing, so that the audience can clearly take sides. I also predict lots of jokes surrounding the idea that they can all hear one another having loud rutting sex all the time. The children will of course be perfect and invisible most of the time. And the strange thing is that this mega family won't grow in size a-la pregnacies because that would disturb the plot arc.

    -- Stephen Rifkin
    Monday, March 6, 2006 06:02 AM

  • Article Intros

    I disagree. Her article intros are my favorite parts of the articles. That and the closing paragraphs. The in-between stuff is nice, but I'm not watching any of it so it isn't as much fun.

    -- Lynx
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    Monday, March 6, 2006 12:46 PM

  • Snarky and Sharp

    I know a lot of people do not read Salon for entertainment news and are harshly critical of anything they consider "fluff" pieces. I take issue with that because while I do check Salon for news, serious opinion pieces, and book reviews, I find myself looking forward to Heather's weekly ILTW column most of all.

    It's fun. She makes you feel like you're in on the joke: the big joke of television. When she mention TV so bad that you can't change the channel, maybe I am huffing my own televised glue, but I can relate damn it.

    Good for you, who are stronger and smarter and do change the channel or unplug completely. But what do you wish upon the rest of us weak, huddled TV viewers? No snarky, clever, and silly commentary to remind us that is just a joke? That's just cruel.

    -- Nina Walker
    Wednesday, March 8, 2006 09:45 AM

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