That's because PBS just started broadcasting the latest season on Sunday. It'll get worse soon -- or it jumped the shark and we won't hear about it. Heck, I like the show and I haven't felt the itch to watch what's on my DVR. I'll also admit that, while I like the show, I don't have any delusions that it's deep. It's also way too plot-pushy for it to be a top-notch show, never letting itself breathe. I've also worked out my delusions about British things being classier than American ones. Every nation has rednecks and low-rent things to appeal to them -- they're just called by different names. One thing that struck me when I first visited England was the lack of trees. It turns out all of those period shows get filmed in the greenest parts of England (or Wales, if they want to be cheap). Otherwise the place is oddly denuded compared to the US northeast. It's tree pr0n for the city folk. Then I realized: oh right, they chopped down almost all of their forests by the 1700s and turned them into ships. They got busy with the colonization because they wanted more wood. The US got fascinated with replanting forests a little over a century ago, when the Adirondacks became protected and New England started recreating what had been chopped down (or lost to imported blights). The UK never quite got the same tree hang-up, even with their green thumbs. Back to the point: people want something foreign or older to be classier, even if it's just wearing nicer clothes. I just caught up on three seasons of Boardwalk Empire: they put on really nice suits just to kill each other.This article is the first one I've read in over a year.
Ahhhh, got it. So they'll be up in my feed again. 'Sokay. I think we've largely moved on. Good on ya, mate. Li'l secret of the entertainment industry: Every shit reality show you've ever seen is a licensed or unlicensed copy of a shit British reality show. Used to know a guy whose job was, in its entirety, reshooting and repackaging British reality TV shows for American networks. It's also worth noting that the British press makes the New York Post look like the New York times. Totally. Washington State is what the Scottish Highlands would look like without the crewcut.That's because PBS just started broadcasting the latest season on Sunday.
I've also worked out my delusions about British things being classier than American ones.
One thing that struck me when I first visited England was the lack of trees.
