Things that make you go "Hmmm..." (television)

[drwex]

This appeared on the QotD list today:

"I'm not saying that television is vulgar and dumb because the people who compose the Audience are vulgar and dumb. Television is the way it is simply because people tend to be extremely similar in their vulgar and prurient and dumb interests and wildly different in their refined and aesthetic and noble interests." - David Foster Wallace

That seems, on initial reflection, pretty reasonable. Certainly the Internet has shown how wide a spectrum of interests people have, and how little of it is captured by mass media. The intersection of commonalities is the big dumb things, not the little clever things.

Your thoughts, oh my wise and assembled readers (who watch way more TV than I do)?

Comments

[bridgetminerva.livejournal.com]

true
why else was Farscape on shorter then Friends or the King of Queens

[drwex]

Because scifi doesn't know its ass from a hole in the ground.