Basis Of Appeal

There's no cable in my house.

There's never been cable in my house growing up, but at college, in the style of grand American tradition, I generally had cable. This semester, nope. This is fine with me. I have luckily found a friend two blocks away who has HBO. [Read: True Blood fix, taken care of.] As I was saying. This lack of cable has made TV watching a little bit more creative at times and a bit more squeamish at times.

The other day I will shamefully admit I watched an entire hour of Divorce Court. When the defendant bellowed at the judge that his wife was a nag and asked "Have you ever been married to Fidel Castro?" I knew the time had come to turn off the television. During this one hour period I was exposed to various commercials. I now know various shows, popular shows, are coming to mainstream television channels. Amongst these are Entourage and Curb Your Enthusiasm.

Now, I guess my question is, why did this weird me out? I've always heard great things about both. Now that they've become accessible to me, why wouldn't I want to watch them? Why would I have been willing to pay to see them before, but now, they're free, and the desire is gone? I feel like it's similar to wanting the it-bag then finding it completely grotesque after seeing it knocked off at one to many mall kiosks. Why is that?

I think the basis of appeal of anything in today's world is how trendy it is. Maybe those shows are great. I probably won't ever know, unless of course, they stop playing Divorce Court [which, by the way, has it's own Facebook page. I am NOT kidding.] There just doesn't seem to be a point in watching them now that the episodes are reruns, everyone has seen them, and well... they're just lost the basis of their appeal.

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Lini.