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Issue Three - 09/12/04 |
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Ironic love of daytime TV turns into actual love of daytime TV |
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Art graduate Stephen Brady who used to enjoy a healthy ironic
love of daytime television has discovered that, much to his
horror, since finishing college it has become an actual love of
daytime television.
Sitting on his couch, a Seasame Street poster hanging on the wall above him, Stephen shakes his head. "I really don't know at what point it happened. Seemed to be every day we'd be sitting around, smoking a few joints and laughing at the trash on Ricki Lake or the nerds on Countdown. Then as the evening wore on we'd grab a dose of Ready Steady Cook or have a laugh at Judge Judy and her far right views on unmarried parents. One of the guys would maybe wander down to the shop for a pizza, that'd cook during The Simpsons and then it'd be time for the Bay at half six on Network 2. Back when it still was Network 2 that is. Since finishing college though most of the guys seem to have gotten jobs or moved away, so it's just me doing the crossword and watching by myself. The problem is I don't even laugh at it anymore. I've found that I'm actually liking it, for real. On the rare occasion when I'm not at home during the afternoon I set the video for Doctors or Murder She Wrote and I always make sure that I'm back in time for Home and Away. I'm even fascinated by that new chat show The Big Bite on RTE 1. What the fuck is happening to me?" |
 Stephen Bradley back in the halycon days of ironic viewing |