Qu'est-ce qui est arrivé dans ce pays ? Il y avait une époque où on pouvait avoir un dîner qui ne tourne pas autour d'une de vos séries télé préférés. Oui, West Wing est quand même au-dessus de L'homme du Picardie et la qualité est plutôt meilleure qu'il y a vingt ans (d'ailleurs, à part peut-être The Avengers, elles sont presque toutes insupportables à regarder aujourd'hui), mais heureusement Lemieux résume bien à quel point elles sont surévaluées :

  • Sex and the City: It was a critical darling and cultural icon. And it was also a show with C-grade broadcast sitcom writing and (Cynthia Nixon excepted) barely-adequate-to-horrible acting about exceptionally uninteresting characters learning fundamentally sexist lessons. In other words, the easiest choice on the list.
  • 24: The recent discussion about its right-wing politics obscures the real problems with the show, which is that it sucks, something that was quite evident before its politics became clear. In the immortal words of the Editors, "Here's the plot of "24": there's a bunch of terrorists, Kiefer stops them, oh wait no he didn't, but now he did really, and just in the nick of time! Because even the cruelest TV executive couldn't stretch this over more than 4 hours, the rest of the show has to be padded out with subplots, mainly involving his daughter getting kidnapped. Oh, Lord, can that girl get kidnapped. Most people can live a good long life without ever getting kidnapped; an unfortunate few do get kidnapped once; there are probably a few examples through history of people getting kidnapped two, or maybe even three, times. Kiefer's daughter gets kidnapped like seven times a day. She gets kidnapped from people who kidnapped her from kidnappers. If she makes it to dinner time without being kidnapped at least twice, that's a cause for celebration in the Kiefer household." And the fact that Keifer Sutherland can win a best actor Emmy tells you all you need to know about the value of those awards.

Ca me fait penser que je n'avais pas lié dans la nouvelle présentation du New Yorker la vidéo sur l'usage de la Question chez Kiefer.