Daytime Television (what you're missing part 2)

In a continueing effort to help educate the employed on the incredible array of viewing pleasure that they are missing, I give you this week's show: SNAPPED

For those of you unfortunate enough to watch this quality programming, let me just fill you in on what you're missing. This show airs on the Oxygen network usually for a full 2 hour block in the afternoons. It is a show devoted to housewives who kill their husbands. It gives in-depth interviews of family and friends and runs through the details of the trial and life behind bars.

My first real beef with the show is that it almost completely copies Dateline in it's format, and even most of it's previously aired material. Now I like Dateline don't get me wrong, but it is on EVERY weekend, and during the weekdays on the MSNBC channel. So, there are a lot of Datelines out there, and most of the time, I have already seen the story they have decided to report on.

I also think it's quite humorous the way they depict these ladies. They find the most hideous picture they can find of them and zoom the heck out of it so you can see evcry guilty little pock mark. But their families and neighbors all talk about them like they would have NEVER suspected she would have done it. Some of them say things like, "Well, she was in and out of mental institutions, but I just never would have thought she would have killed anybody." Hmmmm...
The thing that grabs me most about this show is how absolutely ignored these women are. They're a part of the PTA and do dinner parties for their husband's business associates, yet no one seems to recognize their need for love and affection. Granted, pulling out a shotgun and blowing someone's brains out aren't really the way to get that needed attention, but it sure does get them noticed. I can't help but look at those pock-mark close-ups and wonder if those women were loved just a little more, would they have gone that far? I guess no one will ever know.

My MAJOR concern with the show SNAPPED is that it is on in the afternoons when only women are watching. So it's a show for women about women who kill their husbands. Is that not disturbing to anybody else? What are we saying exactly? I mean a woman could be sitting at home, folding laundry, watching a block of 3 episodes of the show just raring to go. By the time her husband gets home and walks by the trash (which he has conveniently forgotten to take out for the last 3 days) she too SNAPS.

Really what it is telling housewives all over America is, if you're tired of your husband, get rid of him.... WE DID.

And that's what you're missing on daytime TV.