Television Guilty Pleasures This Summer

 

Ice Road Truckers - This show is still about driving over unsafe roads with heavy loads and huge hillbilly egos. I hate Hugh this year because he's all talk and he can't LEARN and he passes blame for his failures on others. He has responsibilities as an owner to his truckers. I like that Lisa is back. And for once I think a trucker they feature will go through the ice and they will have the footage. It's the only way it could and should end. Strangely this reality show tells a better story than most dramas out there. It's interesting and fun to follow a season of trucking in Northern Canada by this band of insane characters. I do like watching the big trucks go down the road - especially ice roads.

Real Housewives Of Anywhere - I don't know why I can't resist these bitches and their manufactured drama. Again I think it has to do with ego and hubris and how I love to see the clash of the two. These people are so ridiculous that no mental patients, at their least lucid could ever create.

Under The Dome - the show where I hate every stupid character and I want to air to run out and I want them to be overtaken by carbon dioxide that they and their cattle are creating. Not enough green to compensate by my math. Of course they will all die long before this after the food and prescription drugs run out and they murder each other down to the last person and scrap of food.

Personally I am glad I don't smoke because can you imagine everyone running out of smokes at the same time while trapped under the dome? That is a bitch of an enforced non-smoking policy. And what about the houses? What kind of toxins are they putting into the air through the chimneys and furnace? Why is the Dome still clear. It would  fill with dust, smoke and other dark toxins that would blacken the inside and prevent plant growth. I would be like nuclear winter without the radiation. Lose the Sun. Lose it all.

See, when I am rewriting shows in my head, it's time for this one to dish out some answers or lose me. I just have to know how this all works itself out. Don't do another LOST on me where five years from now you are still trapped in your bubble like Gilligan was trapped on that island.

Catfish The TV Show - Again, damaged people who get caught with in their lies by the guy who coined the term 'catfishing' which is a term for people who make up fake profiles on the internet and have fake/real relationships with other people from across the country. But the people who want the relationships to be real are partly to blame because they ignore tons of red flags that would let them know that the person they love online is NOT who they say they are.

Strike Back - It's no Luther or Sherlock but it is from Britain it's as close to real world military operation on the front lines of the world's hotspots. One season it's the search for a terrorist, the next it's a case of missile triggers. And this isn't done at your local mall. No, this is fighting on the ground in some of your finer shitholes like Afghanistan or Kenya or Somalia or Pakistan.

It's about using the intel of the moment to affect the war on the ground. I like the two man team and their relationship. How they get themselves out of all the life and death scrapes they do is right out of Call of Duty. This show would be popular with fans of the video game. I am surprised there isn't a game based on the show already. For a wartime show it's got one character having a lot of sex with whichever woman he comes across. Does the stink of combat really the ultimate aphrodisiac?



Strike Back also has one of the funkiest theme songs I have heard in awhile. I like that they just don't shortchange me on something that always puts me in the mood for the adventure that is to come. I think it's one of the strongest theme songs in TV history and will argue that with anyone.