W_Z wrote:
Curious Hair wrote:
Thinking about it, I've never completed a show I didn't like. I guess the closest would be The Secret Life of the American Teenager but even that one lost me by the end. I made it a good two years into 2 Broke Girls. Well, they weren't good years, but y'know.
a few laughs here and there, but whitney cummings' style of humor is so aggressively ribald that it gets old very quickly. and she writes every character to sound exactly like her.
A little Chicago Guy Literature aside here: I made the mistake of reading Joseph Epstein's nonfiction before his fiction (Tall Midget, who I think was a Northwestern guy, may come in here and say my mistake was reading Joseph Epstein at all, if only we could ping him to the Bad TV Shows thread) so that I learned all his personal idiosyncrasies and literary influences, and then couldn't ignore that he writes every character -- whether man, woman, or child -- to sound exactly like himself. He made Best American Short Stories a few years ago and I missed the byline on one but soon noticed that everyone was a know-it-all prick who had a strange obsession with Henry James.
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