Watching Charlie Brooker, you get the sad feeling (and rightly so) that society is doomed. I mean, let's face it, everyday you see self absorbed little snots and you want to smack the hell out of them. Somedays I'm like, this is the future?!? What happened to my jetsons future, or my hovercraft..... wasn't I supposed to have a jetpack by now? Yeah, the future looks pretty bleak you have terrorists, the economy, society thats mean spirited, travelling abroad thats a crap shoot, governments whittling away your freedom, a potential recession... here in America, things are downright depressing. So what can you do?
Look for escapism, thats how it was handled back in the day and if it aint broke.....
[Sophie, trusted babysitter of the Whiskers. Via http://animal.discovery.com/fansites/meerkat/photos/photos.html]
so then i watch television, and I happen to come across what very well may be the best show on television. The story of a family... or meerkats, their trials, their tribulations, their society. Its commentary... positive commentary, without commentary. Just meerkats doing what they do and narrated by an narrator that gives us what a glimpse into what we think they may be thinking. Yes, it's about meerkats. Yes, they don't speak. Yes the cameras just follow them around. YES, I AM HOOKED.
The tag line for the show "Don't judge. just watch." Simple. Brilliant. In an age of "Survivor", "So you think you can dance", "The Biggest Loser", and other competitive and mean spirited "shows" there is hope, hope that creativity isn't dead, hope that the best of everything isn't exemplified by the darkening of the human spirit. No. Everything thats good, everything thats amazing in the world can be summed up in one show. One title. One glimpse. One place. Meerkat Manor.
Animal Planet, I thank you.
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