TV Worth Watching
I've never been a big fan of what was on TV. Until I got married I didnt even own one of my own. Generally my tastes run to either the informative, the really dramatic...or the just plain weird.
But The feller who did the Documentary "30 Days" in which he ate nothing but Mickey Dee's for thirty days, a thought which makes me ill just thinking about it, is now doing a series based on the same premise. He takes someone with a strong belief about something or a strong desire for something and puts them in a situation outside thier normal realm of comfort. The first episode had the feller and his fiance spend 30 days living on minimum wage. Then they had a feller who used to be a jock but had become a rounded 30-something dad do all the latests "get young" tricks; HGH, Testosterone. And in the last couple they had a devout christian feller live as a muslim and a stright country boy go live with a gay man in the castro.
Now this could easily have been or even still devolve into a sophomoric prank level circus act. "See the fag and the phbe live together...watch the madcap comedy!" instead it is thought provoking and seemingly very honest.
Granted, it has so far merely reenforced opinions I already hold. "There is no magic bullet for getting old" "Living on minimum wage is impossible" "muslims are people too" "so are gay folk". SO the true test will be when it gores some sacred ox of mine.
At any rate, if it makes people stop and think a minute, it stands over 99% of the other junk on the tube like a colossus
But The feller who did the Documentary "30 Days" in which he ate nothing but Mickey Dee's for thirty days, a thought which makes me ill just thinking about it, is now doing a series based on the same premise. He takes someone with a strong belief about something or a strong desire for something and puts them in a situation outside thier normal realm of comfort. The first episode had the feller and his fiance spend 30 days living on minimum wage. Then they had a feller who used to be a jock but had become a rounded 30-something dad do all the latests "get young" tricks; HGH, Testosterone. And in the last couple they had a devout christian feller live as a muslim and a stright country boy go live with a gay man in the castro.
Now this could easily have been or even still devolve into a sophomoric prank level circus act. "See the fag and the phbe live together...watch the madcap comedy!" instead it is thought provoking and seemingly very honest.
Granted, it has so far merely reenforced opinions I already hold. "There is no magic bullet for getting old" "Living on minimum wage is impossible" "muslims are people too" "so are gay folk". SO the true test will be when it gores some sacred ox of mine.
At any rate, if it makes people stop and think a minute, it stands over 99% of the other junk on the tube like a colossus
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