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July 07, 2004
Confessions
After a summer of dutifully avoiding almost everything on television aside from a baseball game here and there I slipped up tonight. I came out of my office around 10:30 and my wife was just getting reading to watch the first episode of Big Brother 5 which she had DVR'd in order to avoid commercials. I intended to sit down for a few minutes and then go read, but found myself sitting there watching the whole damn thing.
How did I get caught in its grip? First, I was just a little interested in seeing the people CBS was cramming into an IKEA dream house for 3 months. Then, I noticed that the women were a lot hotter than I remember from previous Big Brothers, so I stuck around a little longer.
Not too far into the show, Julie Chen dropped the bomb that two of the people in the house shared the same father but didn't know it. While it worries me that CBS has this information while the houseguests don't, it was certainly interesting to watch as the man slowly started to realize that this woman he'd never met before was his little half-sister.
I picked out the requisite Big Brother Gay Guy during the initial introductions. It was pretty obvious though the people in the house seem utterly oblivious save for a couple of the babes.
Anyway, Big Brother is dumb, and I'm dumber for having watched it tonight, but after having read S.Ct. opinions for a couple of hours, I needed a little dumbing down.
Posted by Half-Cocked at July 7, 2004 12:39 AM