Gore does offer a specific critique of television and blames it for polluting the national conversation. Too much Anna Nicole Smith and Britney, says Gore. And of course he's right. The cable news nervous breakdown that was broadcast last Friday afternoon when Paris Hilton was taken back to jail simply proved Gore's point, and specifically that it's journalists who are driving the celebrity-as-news obsession, not news consumers.
Chase was clearly implicating the audience as voyeurs in this and the penultimate episode (bystanders ooh and ahh at two murders, and one witness actually barfs), so, yeah, he's kind of making fun of us. But does Chase have to be a "hoaxter," as Kitman calls him, to mock our eagerness for resolution? Isn't it actually more interesting for these characters' ultimate fates to be uncertain, as ours are?
It's only Tuesday and, mamma jamma, I am burnt out. It's actually been fun a fun week so far in a weird way, but I'm really, really tired. I actually napped for an hour or so after dinner this evening and I've been home less than four hours.
UPDATE: HBO has the first eep of John from Cincinnati available online.
UPDATE 2: Hey, comment spammers from China...
