Ow, my head
I'm starting to think that homosexuality on TV has
jumped the shark. I know I was impressed with all the homo stuff on telly sitcoms and dramas just two months ago -- but it's getting ridiculous. This week I can't turn on the set without getting fed gay content with Redeeming Social Value. "Oh bother," said Pooh Bear, resting head in hands. "I just wanted a Bit of Mindless Distraction."
Instead I found a comedy,
The Newsroom, in which a shrink suggests that self-obsessed newsman George Findlay has latent homosexual tendencies -- then a stroke paralyzes the shrink, leaving George in emotional agony. And the medical drama
"House," where a homophobe discovers his mobster brother wants to turn state's evidence in order to use the witness protection program to start a new life as an out gay man. Most hilariously, the bigot decides not to kill his sibling for the impending bean spilling, but tells him to do what makes him happy. Riiiight. (Actually, a couple of people with some insight into organized crime tell me there are quite a few bisexual mobsters, but that's another issue.)
Then there was the special, heart-warming (straight) AIDS storyline on
"Judging Amy." And this afternoon (at 3:30), we Montrealers can finally see the banned episode of the kiddie
Postcards From Buster on VPT (WETK-33). Sigh. Maybe I could find some
"Married with Children" reruns.