October 08, 2007
I Shun You
OK. I don't do a lot of TV blogging. Sports? Yeah, TV? Not so much.
BUT......
Last Sunday I watched the CBS show, Cold Case. I've liked that show since it began. But last weeks show didn't really sit well with me. Sarah talks about it over at Tryin' to Grok.
However, realizing that Hollywood is Hollywood..I thought I'd give it another try. I don't expect them to promote my politics. I just wish they'd stop trying to promote their own.
So I watched this week.
Huh. It was about an Amish girl that gets murdered in Philadelphia while trying to "find herself". (There's a word for it. It's PA Dutch, and I don't know how to spell it. And I sure as hell ain't callin' Mama Vi for that info!)
About 5 minutes into it, I was sitting there trying to decide if it were funny or tragic.
About 7 minutes into I just got pissed.
Those idiots didn't do the least bit of research for this episode. They probably figured since the chances of some Amish man or woman seeing it were slim to none, they'd just not worry about things like accuracy. And respect.
They were about as far from an honest potrayal of that culture as you can get. It was no longer the least bit funny. It was insulting.
Then, from an email I got from Sarah I hear that they had done a previous episode a couple of years ago in which this was said. "You were in the National Guard and did drugs? Heck, you could be president."
Yeah, I must have been traveling that week, cause I'd have lost my temper on that one too.
Well, now I'm done. No more. They crossed the line. Period.
I'm sharing my thoughts about it with y'all, I've sent them an email, and now I stop watching.
It's one thing when we laugh at ourselves amongst ourselves. It's another thing all together when they trash my heritage because of ignorance and disrespect.
Three strikes you're out. Bye Bye.
Posted by Tammi at October 8, 2007 04:22 AM | TrackBackI watch House and Bones.
Oh, and old Andy Griffith and I Love Lucy reruns. That's it.
If they can't entertain without getting political, they're just weak and don't deserve an audience; I certainly won't contribute to one.
Posted by: pam at October 8, 2007 10:50 AMI was very disappointed with it also. I decided that I'll not skip the first hour of Mystery on PBS anymore for Cold Case.
I don't know a lot about the Amish, but I knew they had it wrong. You can just tell sometimes.