ITV
TV has the power to do something no other entertainment medium can do: give us joy from watching people fail. They appeal to our mischievous side and for all the serious dramas, soap operas and sitcoms on our televisions, nothing entertains us like contestants trying and failing miserably or falling over.
Whether they are good or bad (or so bad they are good), these TV shows always try to keep us entertained. They make us laugh, they make us cry, and often can make us do both. Many keep us watching throughout, but not necessarily in the way the producers and hosts initially want us to. Prime examples are game shows and this perverse viewing habit can apply to both prime time and low budget shows.
Many shows are in on the joke and play up to this element, while the others are oblivious to their comedy value, but...
TV has the power to do something no other entertainment medium can do: give us joy from watching people fail. They appeal to our mischievous side and for all the serious dramas, soap operas and sitcoms on our televisions, nothing entertains us like contestants trying and failing miserably or falling over.
Whether they are good or bad (or so bad they are good), these TV shows always try to keep us entertained. They make us laugh, they make us cry, and often can make us do both. Many keep us watching throughout, but not necessarily in the way the producers and hosts initially want us to. Prime examples are game shows and this perverse viewing habit can apply to both prime time and low budget shows.
Many shows are in on the joke and play up to this element, while the others are oblivious to their comedy value, but...
- 5/7/2014
- by Glen Naylor
- Obsessed with Film
Vampires, zombies and now fairies? Are R-Patz et al to blame for the current explosion of (un)deadly boring TV and film?
It's become passé to blame Twilight for everything, but that doesn't mean that Twilight isn't actually to blame for everything. Most bad things, if you work hard enough, can be traced back to Twilight. Doltish-looking skinny boys with silly hair? Twilight. The sinister creep of pro-abstinence policy across the global agenda? Twilight. Paramore? Definitely Twilight. Don't doubt this for a second: Twilight has an awful lot to answer for.
But Twilight's biggest crime – bigger than getting away with having a soggily submissive female as its lead character, bigger even than making grown women refer to themselves as "Team Jacob" without any trace of shame or irony – is what it's done to the undead. People used to be scared of the undead. Vampires used to frighten the hell out of people.
It's become passé to blame Twilight for everything, but that doesn't mean that Twilight isn't actually to blame for everything. Most bad things, if you work hard enough, can be traced back to Twilight. Doltish-looking skinny boys with silly hair? Twilight. The sinister creep of pro-abstinence policy across the global agenda? Twilight. Paramore? Definitely Twilight. Don't doubt this for a second: Twilight has an awful lot to answer for.
But Twilight's biggest crime – bigger than getting away with having a soggily submissive female as its lead character, bigger even than making grown women refer to themselves as "Team Jacob" without any trace of shame or irony – is what it's done to the undead. People used to be scared of the undead. Vampires used to frighten the hell out of people.
- 2/4/2012
- by Stuart Heritage
- The Guardian - Film News
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