Posted on 01/15/2005 1:11:52 PM PST by The Loan Arranger
The first pop phenomenon since the election is that salacious howler of a prime-time soap called Desperate Housewives. At this writing, it's the top-rated show on television, and the media are galvanized by its success at a time when red-state reverence is seeping into everything.
Despite its gleeful attitude toward fornication, this show is popular in Bush country. It even grabs men who never watch such sudsy stuff. One reason is its subject: babes behaving badly. These sexy suburban sisters don't have faggot friends--or careers, like most women in sitcoms today. And this trad but funky set-up suits the Monday Night Football crowd just fine (as the risqué locker-room visit by one of the show's stars, Nicollette Sheridan, attests). Yet Housewives also appeals to gay men and feminists: the Sex and the City set. How can the same package attract such a diverse audience? Even more remarkably, how can it succeed in such a chastened cultural climate?
At first glance, Housewives is a pungent rebellion against the ideal of America the Wholesome. Set in the proverbial suburban byway of Wisteria Lane, the show features more unhappy couples than a Doctor Phil special. With a knowing smirk, it showcases infidelity, treachery and outright schadenfreude.
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When outside to smell the overflowing sewer to clear my head.
Interesting review.
This guy thinks that everybody in "Bush country" is a Bush supporter.
Is it popular among Bush supporters, I wonder?
That's a completely different question.
I had some aging hippie nitwit cashier at Barnes and Noble's tell me it was just the most wonderful show, because it told you exactly how the people who supported "traditional values" really lived. In other words, they told the world they were just were stay-at-home moms taking care of their kids, but they were really torrid sexpots sleeping with the meter reader.
Let me say that I haven't seen the show. But after that description, I really didn't want to. It looked to me like a stealth attack by the blue staters on the red states.
It's a good show.
Lots of interesting twists and turns, 5 good looking babes, and a Sunday lineup of "late to the post" competitors equals a popular show.
The point being made (poorly) regarding the new "panties in a bunch" movement in this country forgets that after all, it's just a TV show.
Haven't seen the show.
I haven't seen the show and WON'T see the show.
The TOP THREE THINGS one looks for in a TV show !!!
Excuse me, but with Kerry getting anywhere from 35-49% of the vote in "Bush country," this TV show is popular with Kerry voters in Bush country.
I'd never heard of the show until the flap over the ad on the football game. Haven't seen it still.
Excellent plan.
Did he also believe that Harry Potter told you exactly how students in boarding schools really lived?
Bush voters fall into many categories. Conservatives, libertarians, South Park Republicans, Democrats-with-brains...
These analyses are statistical nonsense, it is stupid even to try. It says alot more about the authors, than of the subjects.
I am proud of the fact that I have not seen one second of the "top-rated show on television".
Naw, God is a God of grace and mercy. He only punishes the vain, unrepentant, self-obsessed, who mock Him, like your ordinarly, average liberal.
"As for wives who trespass against their husbands, bring 'em on--as long as they act like sluts rather than sexual adventurers."
AAwaa, he's one slick guy. He's got me there. I didn't know there was a difference. But then, how would I know. I never call anyone a derogatory name like "slut"; that'd be a liberal idiom.
"Such creatures are inevitable in a world where faith has been forgotten along with the knowledge of right and wrong."
Why do arrogant liberals feel that they can speak for others. Why do they feel superior when the falsely project motives to those they hate, which are actually their own.
Knowledge of right and wrong? Heck, I don't even have to be a Christian to know what's right and wrong, just an unbiased historian.
Faith forgotten? This guy has embarassed himself, and he doesn't even know it. There's plenty of "faith" going around, not always a useful faith, or "saving" faith in the eschatological sense. He may have no faith in anyone other than himself, but many in this nation have religious faith, and act consistently with their religious convictions.
In fact, they even tolerate a fair amount of harassment in the public place by ignorant fools like the guy who wrote this article, and have the grace to chuckle about it.
SFS
It sounds like another show I'm not likely to watch. Usually when the story line is sex sex and more sex it's really a pretty boring show after the first episode. I'll stick with 24 hours.
Exactly; unfortunately for the blues, Bush supporters CAN discern between fantasy and reality.
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