* I'm officially over My Kitchen Rules and have barely watched it this year. I still don't mind some of the cooking parts - but the formula for contestant conflict is just too, too familiar. And it's kind of worrying watching people play their allocated roles in this mock "reality" show.
* Much, much worse, apparently, from a contestant debasement point of view, is Married at First Sight. I read a twitter thread by someone saying "why for the love of God do some of my otherwise intelligent friends watch this?" I won't go near it with a barge pole, so I won't learn how bad it is. But perhaps I can take pride in having a 16 yr old daughter who expresses no interest in it. I must have done something right. Or, more likely, just lucked out.?
* As for I'm a D Grade Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here: I had about a 10 minute watch of it in total this year. I'm always amazed at how the video quality, the costumes and everything makes everyone look quite physically ugly. I suppose it's just the loss of makeup and normal studio lighting that accounts for it? I still can't stand Julia Morris - I saw her doing a stand up bit in 1998 in a Club Med (the one since closed in Noumea), and I disliked her then. Still dislike her.
* OK, so what do I like on TV at the moment? We're having a Netflix lull at my house - have finished or are just about to finish several good series and at a bit of a loss as to what to replace them with. One which is promising and pretty intelligent - the Norwegian series Occupied, in which in the near future, after closing off its gas and oil to Europe, the Russians stage an orderly intervention at the request of the EU to re-open the supply. As with the comedy Norseman, the Norwegians seem surprisingly good at quality TV. I've watched two episodes, and it's good enough to keep me going. The opening credit sequence song is really bad, though. Just ignore it.
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