I was wrong about Gossip Girl (Thursdays, ITV2). I thought it would prove an unbreakable addiction, but this week's episode ('The Wild Brunch', s01e02) was the bad trip to scare me straight. I don't think I can ever watch that show again.
After a recap of its previous ONE episode that lasted 2:15 and a preview montage MID-EPISODE I am officially cutting ties with the show. Cold turkey. I mean, in all honesty I know I probably take television a little too seriously, but I was actually offended by that monstrosity. It was awful. An affront to intelligent television. Hearing Kristin Bell spell out the meaning of every single thing that happens in the show is obnoxious enough, but trying to keep me watching by including a trailer for rest of the episode I'm already watching? That's downright insulting, if not embarrassingly desperate.
I can never watch it again.
And a part of me is sad because I'm a sucker for teen drama (even vacuous, awful teen drama), but this was just too bad. Another part of me wonders if it was predicated by some kind of special circumstance that makes the sin somehow less inexcusable, but I just can't think of one. How? Why?
Awful, awful, awful...
It's going to take some time before I can even look at it without getting angry.
Bye-bye, hot girls.
Bye-bye, Gossip Girl.
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"a preview montage MID-EPISODE"
I watched the second episode yesterday, and I don't recall seeing this mid-episode. There was one earlier on in it, yes, but I can't honestly say it bothered me THAT much.
I think you're overreacting somewhat, especially since most of the post (well, all of the post) was about the teaser and not about the episode itself. But please yourself.
By mid-episode I just meant within the episode, not specifically halfway into it, but do understand the confusion. I've tried to better articulate my complaints in my next post.
Okey-dokey... maybe it didn't annoy me as much because I've been used to teasers coming along before the show or as flash-forwards. No big thing...
You'd have hated Tru Calling though, what with its recaps halfway through the episode (though apparently this was because Fox aired the first season at 8pm on Thursdays, with a catchup in case anyone just switched over after Friends finished).
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