The description sounds absolutely dreadful. They should wait a couple more years until they've gone further with coarsening Society before going ahead with this. In this respect it is ahead of it's time. The Public hasn't been properly dumbed down yet.
It's interesting to find someone else as cynical as me out there. But don't worry: this will be just a minor skirmish in the culture war. The series will be recycled when the time is right. I've watched, politically impotent, as American society has been deconstructed piece by piece since the 1960s. But the work's about done. TV has been a remarkable vector of socialist decadence, a tool Marx and Lenin could only dream about.