Is Prozac A Pre-Requisite For Television Today?

I was just wondering...if one needs to be medicated before watching most tv nowadays, being able to stomach what is being dished out and considered worth watching.

I just watched two episodes of the Twilight Zone, which, unless you are completely deranged, a fanatical evangelical weirdo, or so pseudo-intellectual that you've talked yourself into a coma, you must know is probably one of the best shows that was ever on tv.
The acting, although often over the top (hey, that's what they did in those days) even at its WORST was still by far leaps and bounds far better and beyond the crap that is being shown on the tube nowadays. Rod Serling was a genius with an imagination that set new boundaries of exploration for what we now call the medium of television and motion picture industry. I saw an episode the other night with Robert Duvall - and the genius you see in Duvall's work throughout his life is evident even then as a young man.

However, if I can guarantee that if Rod were to have just come out of the woodwork now, and was trying to get that show off the ground, it would get stuck only on the Scifi channel, and wouldn't get hardly any ratings; certainly not anything near what these reality shows seem to get on regular network programming.

Yeah - gee, eat a few worms and bungie jump into a lake and that's entertainment. Get fired by Donald and it's primetime. Show some silicon breasts about to burst from a bikini on a barely-legal chick with scuff marks on her knees from one-too-many times at a casting director blowjob party -- and that's emmy material.

But god forbid somebody have some real soul, real plot, real anything...they get the shit end of the stick. Its a system that almost rewards bad actors, bad writing, and retarded plots.

But what do I know...I've just been around the block one too many times.

I've Had It With Shitty Actors

Seriously...as I sit and watch tv or spend money on movies - or even go to plays, I'm always astounded at the number of shitty, talentless, clueless actors and actresses that parade around the stage and screen like freaks in a circus.

At least at a circus you might get an occasional high wire trapeze act that's interesting, or some hot guy in tights to make it worthwhile. These guys can't act their way out of a paper bag to save their lives.

I'm watching tv right now and it amazing...literally amazing how these people got work.

Then again, I'm at home eating haggen daz with the remote in my hand, not having been on an audition in three weeks, so I suppose I'm the real asshole.