Truly Terrible TV

Okay, so here is the thing. I do not have the greatest taste in television. I can watch-and enjoy-television otherwise sane people deem trash. Garbage. A waste of time.

Truly Terrible TV.

Now, my pension for trashy TV (coughcoughrockoflovecoughcough) does not hinder my ability to adequately judge otherwise acceptable television. I can tell when good shows turn bad (or jump the shark). I could tell when Heroes went downhill. I could tell when Prison Break lost its sparkle (a decapitated person not being dead? Really? REALLY?! But that was long after the show nuked the fridge...) But just because I can trace the decrease in television excellence doesn't mean I forsake my enjoyment of the show. I can tolerate pretty much anything.

So when I say that there is tv out there, that I, I find so awful, so blatantly lacking in anything that could ever resemble quality, you will understand my full meaning. So I have to ask...

WHAT. THE F$%K. IS UP. WITH ONE TREE HILL.

One Tree Hill was never high caliber to begin with. Mediocre at best. But that show is really, really scraping the bottom of the barrel. I haven't watched a full episode of OTH since, oh... junior year of college? When a character spilled alcohol all over his dead brother's grave (a dead brother he happened to kill), then ACCIDENTALLY LIT IT ON FIRE, I knew my OTH days were numbered. And the 20 minutes of the show I accidentally saw today made that scene look Emmy worthy. I'm not even kidding. It was truly terrible.

How is it possible that truly terrible TV can remain on the air, while quality television (like Battlestar, Firefly, Jericho, Arrested Development, Pushing Daisies, to name a few) gets pulled? I know it has to do with ratings and budget, and blah blah blah. I still find the whole thing unjust.

Another question: what happens to the TV that starts of promising, then just... dies. Heroes, Prison Break, Grey's Anatomy. What goes wrong with these shows? And why do the producers endlessly and futily try to pump life into their utterly dead hearts when by the end of the season, they are all DOA? The fact that crap like Smallville can be renewed while Firefly gets pulled prematurely is, well...

Truly Terrible.



PS: WHAT is wrong with Chace Crawford's hair??? Someone needs to tell that boy that a comb-over on a 20 something year old is never, under any circumstances, a good idea.




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