As a lawyer, I tried to tell myself it was the oversimplified clichéd plots that are repeatedly stuffed into the "excitement box" of a courtroom until they are misshapen. Endlessly showing good versus evil in a system where sadly black and white rarely exist and there are a billion shades of gray. Couple this with the incorrect procedures and law. But no that wasn't it.
Was it my atheism? Did I object to the winged angels flying down and doing battle with terribly frightful evil on a weekly basis as a further reinforcement of outdated and unscientific beliefs among young audiences? No, it wasn't that either.
The setting then? Bland, mechanical story lines? Truly awful acting? (To be fair there are some good performances). No.
What got me, was that someone was trying to sell this to audiences as entertainment. A prime time slot no less. I would still have grimaced if it was the first attempt at a foray into programme creation by a Year 11 media student.
This programme is as bad as it gets. I may even go as far as to say it represents the final nail in the cultural and creative decline of our society.
It's sad that a TV show can make a 26 year old think this way, but it did. I may throw my TV away now.
Was it my atheism? Did I object to the winged angels flying down and doing battle with terribly frightful evil on a weekly basis as a further reinforcement of outdated and unscientific beliefs among young audiences? No, it wasn't that either.
The setting then? Bland, mechanical story lines? Truly awful acting? (To be fair there are some good performances). No.
What got me, was that someone was trying to sell this to audiences as entertainment. A prime time slot no less. I would still have grimaced if it was the first attempt at a foray into programme creation by a Year 11 media student.
This programme is as bad as it gets. I may even go as far as to say it represents the final nail in the cultural and creative decline of our society.
It's sad that a TV show can make a 26 year old think this way, but it did. I may throw my TV away now.