Wednesday, February 4, 2009
Lists
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Ha, you probably thought I was going to be serious and have a list of terrorists or great books or something weighty and a little bit important. But no. Nope. Not at all. What I want to mention is this list of the twelve current shows that some writer(s) at TV Guide Online think are "twelve smartest shows." Uh, excuse me, but I can name at least two or three shows whose writers use complex sentences and even word play, not to mention character development, better than at least three or four of this list's shows, so at minimum this is an inadequate list. Admittedly, some of the shows on the list require vocabularies above a sixth grade level and some have mildly complex plot lines but how they can rank Damages below How I Met Your Mother in the realm of smartness is quite beyond me. So call me jaded and cynical but I bet these are really twelve shows whose publicity departments wheedled and cajoled said tv guide writer(s) to write about their shows and this was the oh-so-cleversmart hook they came up with to get people's attention. It worked, too, didn't it?
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