Boob Tube Reviews: The L Word
We have three televisions at home: one in my parent’s bedroom, one in my aunt’s bedroom and one, at the living room. At nights, my brother, my sister and I can frequently be seen fighting over the remote and flipping channels in between commercials of shows that the other person was probably watching. Thus, if the three of us preferred watching three different shows, none of us usually gets to watch the preferred show completely except for snippets in between the commercials of the other shows.
My younger sister and I have bonded though, as both of us loved The L Word.
The L Word is a show about women who are into women. As such it delves into the truths about lesbianism, how lesbian women deal with their relationships with their girlfriends, how they handle jealousy, affairs, raising children, discrimination, being feminine, being butch, and even Breast Cancer. There aren’t obviously a lot of hot men in the show but there is the occasional nudity. It’s a very eye-opening show which I would not recommend if you’re homophobic, extremely conservative or you have reservations against watching women kiss other women. As a heterosexual female who would prefer average-looking men over hot gorgeous women, I do highly recommend watching the show because it provides a better insight as to understanding the third sex. It does not explain why some women prefer the same sex since that would imply that lesbianism is an abnormality (The latest edition of every psychiatrist’s bible, DSM IV-TR, no loger considers homosexuality as a mental disorder as compared to the earlier versions of this book, but in my opinion, is still very vague and conflicting with regard to its stand against Gender Identity Disorder) but rather by accepting that lesbians are a part of society that have yet to be given more importance, it provides watchers with a look at the internal conflicts and issues that they go through just like other average heterosexual individuals.
My sister and I are hooked and we would frequently drive away our brother from the living room once the beginning credits for The L Word start.
Watch it.
Boob Tube Reviews: Chuck
Recently, I have just finished watching the entire Season 1 of Chuck. This is basically about a computer geek who works in a low-paying appliance shop as a one of the Nerd Herd computer repair man. Due to a former college roommate-slash-nemesis sending him an e-mail of government secrets encoded in images which became engraved in his brain, a really hot CIA Agent Sarah and an NSA officer John are assigned to guard him at all costs as it is a matter of national security that Chuck be kept safe at all times. Considering that he is a geek after all, basically Chuck spends majority of his time fumbling through several life-threatening incidents, from which the two fully-armed agents would always manage to save him.
Chuck prefers to keep his double identity a secret from his family and friends and several episodes show of him doing his best to save his friends and his sister’s life without their knowledge. If the storyline does not get to you, the love story – but, of course! – that ensues between Chuck and Sarah will make you want to look forward to the next episode, just to see how much more Sarah can keep herself from falling for our dorky protagonist.
A huge lesson here, by the way, is that hot gorgeous women will always fall for the smart dorky geeks. It’s in our genes. We can’t help it. They’re sweet and sensitive. And the Alpha Male wonders why women loved watching Beauty and the Geek? Come on! Women dig geeks. Everybody knows brains will always conquer over brawn anytime. Everybody ages and eventually, a person will lose all that brawn. And what will you end up with?
Nothing.
I rest my case.
