Last night, my daughter watched the season premere of 7th Heaven. What was once a reasonable show has now firmly become a soap opera, likely thanks to The WB catering to the target audience of teenagers. Originally, the show had some interesting plots focusing on the father and the problems he faced as a pastor. It has turned into a collections of soap opera stories about the children-gone-bad (hence the title of this post, referring to “Preachers Kids”). This just confirms my feeling from last year; I think it actually jumped the shark when they brought in Richard Lewis as a rabbi.
TV: A vast wasteland*. Hopefully, Survivor will be better 🙂 [my guilty pleasure]. At least my daughter has admitted that 7th Heaven is now in the “Take it or leave it” category; her current “must watch” is Charmed.
[For those that didn’t notice: My music this week, at least a work, is a tribute to Fred Ebb, who died earlier this week.]
———–
*: The actual statement from Norman Minkow in 1961 was: “When television is good, nothing—not the theater, not the magazines or newspapers—nothing is better. But when television is bad, nothing is worse. I invite you to sit down in front of your television set when your station goes on the air and stay there without a book, magazine, newspaper, profit and-loss sheet or rating book to distract you–and keep your eyes glued to that set until the station signs off. I can assure you that you will observe a vast wasteland.”
