Thursday used to be a TV night, but with the advent of the new season, we find that every dramatic or comedic program now offered is written by male 13-year old seventh graders.This actually drove me to HGTV which was offering a program called "Selling New York." Inside nine minutes, I was literally in hate with every person portrayed. Who are these twits? Nevermind. I don't give a crap.
Thank God for boardgames.
3 comments:
Aren't they obnoxious? I worked in NYC real estate for over ten years. We did retail leasing. At the time the company was founded it was the only real estate company that specialized in retail leasing. We were very, very successful.
Residential real estate is a whole other ball of wax - it's basically 24/7 and the clients, buyers and sellers, are just as obnoxious as the brokers. On that show you are also dealing with the wealthy. Tho regardless of the price point, sellers can be overly emotional and buyers can be overly greedy especially in the current real estate market and brokers have to please everyone! Residential real estate is a tough job.
But yes, Selling New York? The most obnoxious (and unattractive) folks around. I worked with those types of people for years. Probably why I never found "Seinfeld" to be funny...
It's hard to find shows that you connect with these days. Honestly, I find I'm most attracted to Bravo--with it's Top Chef, Flipping Out, Project Runway on Lifetime (an old Bravo show) and survivor. I guess they are "reality" shows, but I can't stand the sitcoms or murder shows. We watch very little TV these days.
Grace, your people skills and patience are clearly superb. I understand that the agent only gets paid when the sale is consummated, but some of those people are insufferable. Pretentious people at whatever level on the socio-economic scale are "unattractive" as you say.
Lin, I think we have it right: tv as entertainment will occupy smaller and smaller space in our lives. (Bigger screens, worse programming.)
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