Sickened by Sunday tv

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I can’t believe what they wait till Sunday to put on tv. Desperate Housewives (from what I’ve heard it sounds like what wives have always done on soap operas except this show is on Sunday), the CBS movie which, unless from Hallmark, usually has a steamy scene, blasphemy or swearing, and forensics shows like Cold Case, which seems to have stories of kids getting molested killed or killing someone… This kind of stuff has been around on tv, but couldn’t it be rescheduled to Saturday?
What do you think? Is there a frightening trend of sacrilege starting in these early years of the 3rd millenium or am I just missing one that’s been around and I’ve just not paid attention?
 
maybe Sunday is the best day for those types of objectionable shows?

After all, with Mass and family time, who has time to watch TV? If the tv is the center of family time, rent a family friendly movie or something.

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I can’t believe what they wait till Sunday to put on tv. Desperate Housewives (from what I’ve heard it sounds like what wives have always done on soap operas except this show is on Sunday), the CBS movie which, unless from Hallmark, usually has a steamy scene, blasphemy or swearing, and forensics shows like Cold Case, which seems to have stories of kids getting molested killed or killing someone… This kind of stuff has been around on tv, but couldn’t it be rescheduled to Saturday?
What do you think? Is there a frightening trend of sacrilege starting in these early years of the 3rd millenium or am I just missing one that’s been around and I’ve just not paid attention?
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I agree w/ the **** of Desperate Housewives but I have to admit I’m a big fan of Cold Case files; great show.
 
TV programming on the networks leaves a lot to be desired 7 days per week as far as I am concerned. I have just recently decided to turn it off, most of the time. I will watch some EWTN and FamilylandTV programming, but for the most part it is not worth my time.
Until the public stops watching, the networks will not do anything. If we continue to view the garbage they provide, they will continue to provide it.
My war on garbage “JUST TURN IT OFF”
 
the wierd part… on Meet the Press with Tim Russert… they discussed that very show… he said that via polls, the overwhelming majority watching are in the “so called” red or conservative states… and that a majority of the people that identified themselves as “Christians that voted along conservative lines” are loyal watchers… The other obvious mafority was almost a 5 to 1 ratio being women to men that watch the show… Interesting… don’t you think?
 
I don’t know if Sunday TV is any worse than the other days of the week. My own taste runs to “Booknotes” and the History Channel, but surfing through the channels not long ago I came across an “Everybody Loves Raymond” episode (not sure if an original or a re-run), which based the entire plot upon the mother having made a sculpture that resembled a portion of the female anatomy. I was surprised that a supposedly family-type show could get away with that.

But in watching many if not most sit-coms currently you will find numerous sexual innuendos of the type that would have caused my parents to throw out the TV back in those prehistoric days.
 
I like Desperate Housewives. It is certainly a unique show. It does have a suggestive scene now and then, like almost all TV shows do these days. Since it is on Network TV, they can’t use the “f” word! Most of the characters are kind of lovable, but they all seem to have a dark side. I think the reason I like this show is that every action seems to have a consequence. The husband who wants to divorce his wife because she is obsessive about neatness bought a new car for his teenaged son so he wouldn’t feel so guilty about the upcoming divorce. The next thing you know, the teen-age son has a hit and run accident. The housewife who is having an affair with the young gardener was discovered by her husband’s mother, who snapped a picture of them in bed. The mother who snapped the picture is the one who ended up in the hospital, hit by the teen-aged boy’s new car. The young gardener announces that the affair is over because he has gone to confession. The next thing you know, the priest is sitting at the bedside of the injured woman, next to the adultress. The adultress gets nervous and asks if all priests keep the seal of confession. She also asks if she can wait until she is maybe 75 years old to repent of her sins. The priest tells her that she risks dying and going to hell. There is an amazing number of people who watch this shows–who knows, maybe this will remind some fallen away Catholics that it might be a good idea to go to confession and go back to church!

I watched Boston Legal next, and this show seemed more sleazy to me. They sleep around, and the attitude just seems to be that’s life and nothing could be more normal. There are no consequences to their actions.
 
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I like Desperate Housewives. It is certainly a unique show. It does have a suggestive scene now and then, like almost all TV shows do these days. Since it is on Network TV, they can’t use the “f” word! Most of the characters are kind of lovable, but they all seem to have a dark side. I think the reason I like this show is that every action seems to have a consequence. The husband who wants to divorce his wife because she is obsessive about neatness bought a new car for his teenaged son so he wouldn’t feel so guilty about the upcoming divorce. The next thing you know, the teen-age son has a hit and run accident. The housewife who is having an affair with the young gardener was discovered by her husband’s mother, who snapped a picture of them in bed. The mother who snapped the picture is the one who ended up in the hospital, hit by the teen-aged boy’s new car. The young gardener announces that the affair is over because he has gone to confession. The next thing you know, the priest is sitting at the bedside of the injured woman, next to the adultress. The adultress gets nervous and asks if all priests keep the seal of confession. She also asks if she can wait until she is maybe 75 years old to repent of her sins. The priest tells her that she risks dying and going to hell. There is an amazing number of people who watch this shows–who knows, maybe this will remind some fallen away Catholics that it might be a good idea to go to confession and go back to church!

I watched Boston Legal next, and this show seemed more sleazy to me. They sleep around, and the attitude just seems to be that’s life and nothing could be more normal. There are no consequences to their actions.
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Eh, I don’t know about that. You can’t do evil to make good come out of it. All that garbage is the same and so predictable.

I just dont watch TV that much anymore. If I do, it’s mainly syndicated episodes of the Simpsons and Seinfeld. Or TLC, Discovery, or the History Channel. I like educational programming because I’m a giant nerd.
 
I actually saw Desperate Housewives this Sunday, and thought it was a really good show.

They featured a Catholic priest, and really portrayed him in a good light, I thought. He rightly urged a woman to repent of her affair, depicted her lover as having repented of it and confessed, etc.

And I thought the story and the acting as really well done. I actually look forward to watching it again next week.
 
If it doesn’t have anything to do with 22 big, overpaid, sweaty dudes pounding each other into the turf for 3 hours at a time, I don’t want anything to do with it. Sunday means football (after Mass, of course :D). Plus, there are alot of really good life-lessons to be learned from football. I think the only real place that kids can learn discipline anymore is through participating in team sports. My wife used to roll her eyes when I mentioned football, but then I made her sit with me during a game and explained to her what was going on and how our kids can benefit by participating when they are old enough and she actually gets into it now. As for the rest of television programing on Sunday - irrelevant, not enough dirt and testosterone.
 
let’s see, isn’t Sluts in the Suburbs brought to you by the same network that dumped top rated show Touched by an Angel, and is desperately trying to crawl out of the ratings cellar, whose entire journalism department has lost all shred of credibility? that network?

anybody remember when there was ONE football game on each Sunday, and evening programming meant Walt Disney, Bishop Sheen and Alistair Cooke’s Omnibus? (we were never allowed to watch Ed Sullivan or Milton Berle)
 
I like Desperate Housewives also, but I think it should be on a 10pm timeslot. It is a perfect social commentary about what happens to “good people”, who have no sense of purpose or meaning in their lives i.e. no religion.
 
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At my house, Uncle Miltie was mandatory on Tuesdays. Also, if I recall correctly, in those early days, there was only a single 1-minute commercial every 15 minutes.
 
Was the priest on Desperate Housewives portrayed as a “stiff”? On many shows they seem to be “stiff” or loose (usually a smoker or one with an alcohol problem). I don’t have trouble with a priest being a “stiff” because it’s better than them having a sexual or drinking disorder. Sometimes shows have a “stiff” priest who is a hypocrite (many of the liberal media loves projecting their hypocrisy and inconsistencies on conservatives and priests who do their job or ones that don’t but teach moral truths anyway).
Also, is sex on that show shown being done or people shown in bed afterwards? That’s a problem. They can’t just be seen, at least shutting a door so as not to poison our souls through our eyes. I like “American Dreams” ok. The more severe priest shows a kinder side and there’s a kind nun also. That one girl doesn’t get an abortion. The dad is a real dad and not a big dumn goof like sitcoms show them (with the wife being the only smart parent who holds the family together while the dad hangs out with his idiotic buddies and they all sound idiotic). The wife isn’t perfect in “A.D.” but she isn’t sleazy (I haven’t ever seen that behavior from any housewife parents of anyone I’ve know of as a kid or heard of it happening as told by my parents when were got old enough [and it does happen amongst wealthier people often for reasons of idleness as it does amongst the poor who feel they have nothing to lose when God and His love and punishment don’t concern either as much for one reason or another]–as if anyone is truly “old enough” to watch or hear of these stories in graphic detail and/or without dire consequences as a result) . Why don’t people just watch “Dallas” or any other soap opera where housewives (and their husbands) act uncommonly trashy?

About football. It can get frustrations vented, but it can’t build character. Just look at the Dallas Cowboys (laughing). Seriously, it is proven that sports alone don’t build character. A coach might but not all coaches are going to be guidance counsellors because they don’t want to or they’re not good at it. It takes a village but most importantly, the parents (a man and a woman who were married first, pretty well-balanced and that care). It’s hard when the village is falling apart as a result of, a catalyst of, and/or as a sharer in the chain reaction of the family unit falling apart.

I’m wondering if kids, if not raised to pray together and put together with kids of practicing Christians, should play more video games and watch more tv. What’s the better alternative anymore for a non or hardly-practicing-Christian family for which Sunday is just a fun day interrupted by church in the morning and homework at night when the kids are going to play with kids of other such families that talk like the kids from South Park and break off hood ornaments from cars as fun? At least in being homebound, they would lose their innocence from tv than physically losing their innocence at the ever declining years in which sexual experience is being experienced by kids. Of course, there’s always intelligent kids reading, but in lazy households, you might have one that becomes an egghead and that even does not definitely build moral character.
Of course, there could be a campaign to end this programming and bring back the Catholic Truth Society or whatever it was called (I’m glad we have Crossroads and that organization of college Catholic evangelists) in which someone stood on something and started preaching an aspect of our Faith, but we people need leaders to initiate it.
 
i agree. desperate housewives have even polluted the NFL live televsion, which has lttle children of all ages watching.
 
There is one very simple solution to problems with TV content:
turn it off.
 
I recall reading somewhere–can’t remember the source–that TV of any kind is bad for pre-schooler’s development. It makes sense to me. After that, it just interferes with their homework and makes them lazy. Of course, that goes for adults too.
 
Was the priest on Desperate Housewives portrayed as a “stiff”?
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No, he wasn’t.
There is a good thread on this particular show (DHW) in this same forum.
The show is over the top as far as actual suburban situations is concerned, but it has many morality messages which, IMO, lifts it above most tv.
It is an adult show and not for children and should be shown an hour later than it is, it least here in Mountain time.
I will continue watching it because, so far, all the characters get their commuppance for their individual behaviors.
 
Of course, it is in our nature to see others get their comeuppances. I’m sure women love it when an adultering husband gets fined by Judge Judy, but do they really grow from seeing justice done to the bad guys? It may distract from self-reflection unless seeing cohabitors and abortion patients suffering from their decisions causes one to change their mind. Is that what most watchers are picking up from it? Could that one life-changing decision for one person after having seen one particular episode be worth the filth that enters the eyes and ears of most and the projection of their sense of justice? It never did me good to be happy Saddam (and his sons) is no longer brutalizing his people when I reflect upon what my sins have done to further Satan’s massive evil agenda (but I don’t know if the audience will do that) in sort of the way just as Africans centuries ago sold and certain reverend politicians today have helped racist and/or classist elites (some being well-to-do dark-skinned people as well, in this age–the UN comes to mind), all tempted by Satan to do so for certain benefits, maim and kill their own people (some well-meaning ignorant altruists excepted). I just hear how funny it is. Kids seeing commercials for it on tv won’t know the characters get punished for their behavior. There are more than one way to show people behaving badly getting punished.
You know of course, we all deserve hell. Not everyone gets hell after death for their evils (some may go straight to heaven if they repent and get babtized) and not alll get punished by the law on earth. It’s not realistic enough. I think it mostly serves to makes us feel better about ourselves. That’s just my opinion, I could be wrong.
 
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