Enter : the first of my (totally biased and purely-as-observed )TV Show Review: It's another opinion...and you know, everyone's got one....
So there are tumbleweeds practically
blasting through Fall TV programming right now. The re-runs of the re-ran shows
are choking the airwaves, becoming powerful enough to confuse my DVR (which
recorded a re-run despite being programmed not to! **gasp! **). But
amidst the hush and lassitude...there is.....tatadadaaaa! TLC to the rescue!
Home to such heartwarming perennial
favorites like: A Baby Story, Bringing Home Baby, and evenCake Boss, TLC seems
to have suffered a wildly fascinating bout of N.M.C: "Network Midlife
Crisis"!
While I know I am not the only one
who may have noticed the ear piercing screech of the left field gear shift, I
also know I am not the only one who may have needed a hand to hold after
watching the first offering's of the Network's two latest gems, "The
Virgin Diaries and, Sunday’s (December 18) debut of: "Geek Love".
I know, I know.....everyone thinks
that the people featured on this show are like, totally mal-adjusted social
reject outcasts who really should seek therapy instead of reality TV show notoriety
and fame (which I am quite certain they haven't quite
achieved...yet....really!).
But honestly?
I thought it (the concept of the
show, AND the cast themselves) were rather....refreshing!
I mean, if I truly need to hit the
re-set button in my mind, I am more than glad to pick up a book and read (do
that a lot really!), but this Docu-drama was a wonderful change of pace from
the "norm". After my uncomfortable squirming (um...they were rather
odd people, sorry: see "The Kiss", after the couple weds, "their
first kiss EVER, as a couple and clearly, ever...I mean, like, ever. Never on
their hands...never with a friend....never with a toy...never with a boy...man,
obviously never... but I digress) I was left with a feel-good buzz!
I was happy for them! Seriously!
Not really a spoiler here, as the
debut show has already aired, but much of the cast remains virgins... (And duly
so!), and the newly married couple....well? They...."did the deed!"
It was a TLC Special, but the
network is presently holding castings, and despite a probable shortage of age
18+, virginal candidates who may be willing to go on TV and publicly document
their sojourn's beyond their "maidenhead voyages", I do foresee a
growing interest in TLC's newest way of celebrating: "firsts".
It’s like every Jeni's Ice cream
flavor.
Like...beer perhaps.
Like frog legs, fried frog legs.
Or for those of you that haven't, it’s
possibly akin to driving in Europe (or everywhere else in the world for that
matter), in a European model car.
You sort of have to just do it once,
try it to decide whether or not you LIKE it! And then, you may find you do so
love love love it....and you may feel weird if you don't. Or not....
It’s just like that! Exactly like
that! Watching this show, that is!
This has got to be the quirkiest
(read: weirder than your weirdest high school friend if you weren't actually
super weird yourself, sorta weird), most perplexing (read: how? did? these? people?
GET? this way?) grouping of characters....ever.
The TLC Premiere of Geek Love
focused on a set of young people who are self-proclaimed (and....by MOST other
standards) "nerds", and their valiant pursuit of happiness in the
dating world, through a speed dating event, offered at New York's, Comic Con.
It’s all a matter of perception
here, and I am not yet sure if this one will be a ratings winner with TLC
viewers, (but who am I...really?)
But seriously? If they are fickle,
easily entertained, Cheerers-on of general humanity as I am? Well....there may
be an audience just yet!
**Disclaimer: I have personally
NEVER been to a Comic Con event, anywhere, and thus my written opinion may most
likely be due to my un-travelled ignorance, as Comic-Con may very well be Mecca
for numerous individuals who aren't actually nerds at all. And personally, the
word nerd is in no way shape or form, derogatory in MY mind, as intelligent
individuals, eccentric individuals, odd-balls and the like, are all
simply----people.
PS: TV's lead actor from
"Chuck", Zachary Levi was prominently AT Comic-Con, and I do so
luuuuuurve him (sorry loving, beautiful husband of mine, but really...I do!)**
Mmmmm...all that being said, I guess
I will waive my nerd flag high, and wait with baited breath for the new season
of MY guilty pleasure programs like, ABC's" The Bachelor", MTV's:
"Teen Wolf" and ....ok, who am I kidding? The list is long, and the
DVR, will be busy!
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