Television Musings

Rants and Raves of Romance Writer

By Kathy Carpenter

Coming Undone

This week I decided to try something new. With this blog being an evolving process. Since I’m a Romance Writer and a reader I’m going to use book titles as my blog titles instead of the Television shows I’ve been using.

I often talk about more than one show anyway. And this will be sort of a creative exercise for me. To tie in the book title with the show or shows I talk about that week.

Coming Undone by Susan Anderson is the current book I’m reading. However, I won’t always use the book I’m reading because it often takes me more than a week to finish a book and my blogs are weekly, so we will see how this goes.
To tie in the book for this week I will use Big Brother. Watching last nights episode which is also when I came up with this title idea - I realized that not only does practically every player in the house come undone, lose it or whatever you want to call it. Sometimes it’s even used as a strategy. One girl is on the block (which means in danger of being voted out) said she would purposely try to make the other player on the block to come undone ( blow up) so the other players would think him volatile and vote for him instead of her.

Is this awful? Maybe but this is what other players when it comes down to voting for a winner admire. I dislike just about everyone in the house. You may start out liking certain players but before the show is finished they will do something that shows a side of them you just plain can’t morally understand. By the end there is no one left for you to like. They even hate each other. And yet they usually vote for the person they hate the most to win. It’s just a game and they do what they have to “coming undone” in the process.

This particular week (last week was a slow TV week for me. I even went out one night and did not tape anything. I go out most nights and believe me I have a heck of a time keeping up with the taping. But not last week. Due to the Olympics and shows that have ended. I know the Olympics is the big thing. The thing everyone talks about and is watching. But although I watch a little ( gymnastics) I can’t really get into most of it.

You would think it’s the ultimate reality show. Behind every athlete is story and they tell them all. But not all of them can win . Some try a lifetime and the event they are in lasts only a couple minutes or in any case not long. After all the build up the dream realized or not is over in the blink of an eye. For me I need more of a payoff.To tie in the book for this week I will use Big Brother. Watching last nights episode which is also when I came up with this title idea - I realized that not only does practically every player in the house come undone, lose it or whatever you want to call it. Sometimes it’s even used as a strategy. One girl is on the block (which means in danger of being voted out) said she would purposely try to make the other player on the block to come undone ( blow up) so the other players would think him volatile and vote for him instead of her.

Is this awful? Maybe but this is what other players when it comes down to voting for a winner admire. I dislike just about everyone in the house. You may start out liking certain players but before the show is finished they will do something that shows a side of them you just plain can’t morally understand. By the end there is no one left for you to like. They even hate each other. And yet they usually vote for the person they hate the most to win. It’s just a game and they do what they have to “coming undone” in the process.

This particular week (last week was a slow TV week for me. I even went out one night and did not tape anything. I go out most nights and believe me I have a heck of a time keeping up with the taping. But not last week. Due to the Olympics and shows that have ended. I know the Olympics is the big thing. The thing everyone talks about and is watching. But although I watch a little ( gymnastics) I can’t really get into most of it.

You would think it’s the ultimate reality show. Behind every athlete is story and they tell them all. But not all of them can win . Some try a lifetime and the event they are in lasts only a couple minutes or in any case not long. After all the build up the dream realized or not is over in the blink of an eye. For me I need more of a payoff.