TV on the Bush Era Posted by Adam Blickstein

There's a raging debate over which TV show best embodies life under George Bush's America. Newsweek says it's Battlestar Gallactica and American Idol. Kevin Drum exclaims "24 is George Bush's America.  Case closed." But why so serious? In my estimation, it's gotta be Arrested Development. Blatantly, a show about the collapse of a lucrative mini-mansion housing empire allegedly due to improper accounting practices which is also under federal investigation for secret ties to Saddam Hussein but in reality is tacitly working with the CIA to build mansions in Iraq to wiretap Saddam's regime takes the cake.  The reckless picaresque nature of the show and its well-meaning yet equally flawed "hero", Michael Bluth, combined with irreverent references to Abu Ghraib, WMD, "Mission Accomplished,"  Saddam's spider-hole, the Blue Man Group, religious fundamentalism, Carl Weathers, Girls Gone Wild, Terry Schiavo, Enron, and internet celebrities rather comprehensively blankets the spectrum of farce from Bush's tenure. But there's one reason that takes AD over the edge as the preeminent Bush era program: Gob. Besides being a Bush clone of a frat boy struggling in his attempt to be a competent leader, there has been no line written in music, in movies, in TV or in literature that best typifies America's collective feeling of discontent from the past 8 years (not to mention Bush's failure to ever admit failure): "I've made a huge mistake."

 

Update: My colleague Pat Barry brings up another salient point: across the board daddy issues.

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