Three TV shows everyone likes but I don't
1) The Sopranos
I know, I really do, but I've tried and it just isn't happening. I want to like The Sopranos so much, I love anything involving organised crime (apart from, you know, actual organised crime) but I struggle - if someone was willing to hunker down with me, a box set, and some terrible food for a few days, I could definitely get it done.
2) Mighty Boosh
When I was still a teenager, this was the funniest show I'd ever seen; I ended up gong to the Mighty Boosh festival, and Mike Fielding DJ'd at my university. A couple of years later I thought, hey! I'll watch that show, I loved it so much - and it just wasn't funny any more. I was astounded at how profoundly stupid it all was, and the magic was just over. People still buy me the merchandise for presents, so hopefully they'll read this and stop because I've got two copies of the book now.
3) Next Top Model
This is supposed to be the paragon of entertainment for girls my age, but for me it's just another show about things I didn't really need to know about in the first place. I like models, I think they're essential to the fashion industry, but any episode I've ever watched has left me feeling twice as inadequate as I did the hour before. The blatant over-hype of looks and skinny flatness is not what bothers me, though; its the fact that, like all of these shows, the people that win them are not going to be the next top anything. You can't win a position like that, attention isn't going to automatically swing in your favour because you won a show - in fact, its probably a disadvantage more than anything. Sure, you'll be handed connections and money, but no-one will ever really think you worked to earn it, even if you did.
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