Are books worthless?
Depends which ones you read.
Same with TV.
Entertainment has no worth, then?
There's a lot of good stuff on TV, you just have to find it. HBO and Showtime's original programming is usually pretty good. Dexter, The Sopranos, The Wire, Weeds, Deadwood, Carnivale, Dead Like Me. All are or were good shows. Granted some ended before their times, but regardless -- good TV.
The Shield was fantastic.
The Venture Bros. is hilarious.
There are a number of good shows on Adult Swim.
Hell's Kitchen is good fun.
Kitchen Nightmares is also a lot of fun.
The F Word on BBC.
Good Eats is educational and fun.
No Reservations is excellent.
Man v. Food is a guilty pleasure of mine.
How Clean is Your House? on BBC
Admittedly, the advertisements can be irritating, but that's why they put the Shut Up TV button on the remote. (Mute.
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Most of it is there... and numbered.
Pretty much. Back in the late '50s, early '60s, in the anthology boom -- Alfred Hitchcock Presents, Twilight Zone -- there was some stuff going on. It's really only the last decade that the medium seems to have found its feet, though, as a dramatic platform.This is the golden age of television.
Never before has TV been this interesting, complex, and exciting.
The trick is not to watch television for the sake of television; it's to look into specific shows, and treat each as you would a novel.
They're different media in that they are based in a different study -- just as painting studies a different form from sculpture, and theater studies a different form from videogames. The television drama and the novel are similar in that they're both long-form standards derived from a shorter format -- film and the short story, respectively.Unfortunately you are asking us to treat TV as a novel, but they are entirely different mediums.
[It] ain't the medium's fault.
Dude, it's just people. They're just trying to say stuff. You aren't interested, that's cool. Go do your thing. If you're not interested in engaging, though, you've got no place in judging.
You're dumping your own trash here. That's not constructive.