Confession: most days, I spend my lunch hour with whatever food I can dig out of the fridge & a DVR of some reality TV show.Sometimes it's the Real Housewives (especially NJ...oh how I love the Manzos). Other days I might cue up the ridiculous Rachel Zoe (it's eye-opening to spend a half-hour with someone who HONESTLY BELIEVES that clothing matters more than people) or some Jerseylicious (how fun is the possibility that life could be so simple: big hair, big tan, big bling?)
I call these my guilty pleasures...but I don't feel guilty about them at all. I watch the shows that make me smile, and make me feel like I've spent time with some especially crazy friends. (It's sort of like the summer I lived in Montreal with a bunch of guys who had just been dumped by their girlfriends and HATED women. I spent 3 months watching Sex and the City DVDs just to have some semblance of female bonding.) And in a surprising way, these shows inspire me. Not the fighting, but the real parts: we mostly want the same few basic things in life, and we use the resources we have (sometimes that's relational/intellectual/financial/spiritual...other times it's spray tan/stilettos/hairspray & bedazzledness) to try to make it from where we are to where we want to be. As a speaker & writer, this stuff is GOLD!
(And how do you like THAT for a blatant attempt to justify a daily hour of mindless television? There's my law degree at work!)
Do you have a secret TV escape that makes you laugh/inspires you? Do share...
6 comments:
One Tree Hill.
I've never seen any of the Real Housewives or Jerseylicious... Most of my escape "TV" is on YouTube--the Shaytards' daily vlogs and the What the Buck show. But I also love Modern Family, and The Big Bang Theory!
I adore Gossip Girl--a peek into the scandalous lives of Manhattan's elite. It's totally a guilty pleasure, but the writing and acting are startlingly good, and I look forward to watching it every week. Plus, it's fun to occasionally spot familiar landmarks around NYC.
Ooohhh . . . I did a brief stint with Jersey Shore (season 2). Life lessons to be learned there, Trish. Sam was the cutest girl there and I think she thought that it would power her into anything - inlcuding a relationship with Ronnie. She even was mean to the other girls (Snookie and J-Wow) when they tried to tell her that Ronnie was cheating. At first it looked like Snook and J-Wow got punished for their good deeds . . . but at the end of the season Ronnie dumped pretty girl Sam!! Oh the pain. And J-Wow ended up in a (more stable than others on the show) relationship. Just when you thought the world was injust . . . ;)
lately we are into watching the DVDs of when This American Life was a show...soo good.
MI-5 (called Spooks in England & Canada). It makes me want to get in the way-back machine and get a do-over. I'd go back and forget all this silly IT/Computer stuff. And I'd go into forensic sciences. It would put all my analysis, nosiness and bouncer skills to good use.
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