The Sad State of Television Today

[Note: This article is a work of nonfiction, based on the personal opinion of the author. Specific quotes that appear are based on the author’s interviews conducted with those mentioned.]

What’s Wrong With This Picture?

What’s wrong with this picture? The TV picture, that is. To answer that question, let me say this: There is something terribly, terribly wrong with the way characters are portrayed on new TV shows. They are not characters; they are robots.

There are no likable performances, and there are no likable characters that are performed.

I’m so very sorry to state this, but the portrayals, direction, and presentation of characters on all new TV shows are just dreadful.

I have tried to watch the new shows. I really have. But it’s like all the characters have been possessed by aliens and they’re all “pod people”…like from that movie Invasion of the Body Snatchers (the original and the subsequent remakes).

It’s just horrible. The kind of television I have known and loved for decades is now officially dead and gone…forever. R.I.P., TV.

A Closer Look at the Big Picture

It’s like when I interviewed Leave It To Beaver actor Tony Dow, who later became a director, and…