Terrible TV

On Friday night, I sat down in my favourite couch in front of the television to see what was on. Being Friday night, I expected there to be a horde of good programs that would not only entertain me but would also make me think. I was deeply disappointed. Friday night television is a joke.

I turned on the TV at 7:30. 'So You Think You Can Dance Australia' didn't really take my fancy, so I switched over to TV1 and what I saw over the next hour was terrifying and disturbing. It was called 'Trinny and Susannah Undress the Nation'. These two annoying women (Trinny and Susannah) were parading around all sorts of workplaces and homes telling some unlucky people that their clothes were horrible and made them look fat, or ugly, or all sorts of nasty things. This ridiculous show went around in circles from one 'badly dressed' man/woman to another, with good old Trinny and Susannah taking them out shopping and stripping them down to their 'shockingly terrible' underwear and bras. At the end there was a heartwarming (yeah right) unveiling of these men and women who had been converted to wearing 'beautiful and sexy' clothes, and then Trinny and Susannah made a fantastic (vomit) speech about how this show had been an amazing journey and what a how great it made Trinny and Susannah feel to see all these men and women now looking so great. It was the biggest waste of an hour I had ever spent, and the worst thing was that my mum seemed to think that it wasn't a bad show. Unbelievable.

However, not wanting my Friday night to be totally ruined, I changed channel to TV2, and had to quickly turn the volume down as 'American Idol' came on, and all sorts of daft guys and girls who have no chance of ever being a singer tried to convince these three poor judges that they deserved to go to the next round. It was funny at first. But you can only handle so many anti-singers in one night and American Idol quickly lost my attention. I came back at 9:30 and found a show on one that was like American Idol; very entertaining for the first few minutes but after that it went downhill into the depressing. It was 'Chaos at the Castle: A Place in Slovakia II'. This show is terrible but also terribly addictive. It tells the story of these two absolute tosspots, who move to Slovakia to try and buy a castle and make a hotel. The woman is a bossy, horrid, person who seems to have her poor, slightly thick husband so scared of her that he does everything she asks. It is so depressing. Seeing this crabby, blonde woman yelling at her blubbering twit of a husband is a horrible sight to see, but it is a fascinatingly horrible sight. The nerve of this woman is unbelievable. She yells at her husband that he hasn't done enough work and that the hotel will never be ready on time and then the next shot we see is of her lying down upstairs, with cucumber over her eyes and mud all over her face, getting a massage!!! Whilst downstairs her poor old husband slaves away with paint and wallpaper to get this hotel ready. This show that made me laugh and feel depressed at the exact same moment finished my night, and I went to bed thinking about the good old days when Friday night TV was full of fantastic movies and shows with at least a squidgen of quality.

Next Friday I won't be watching TV.