“Over There” is Over

Says the talking head for the FX network:

“ ‘It became evident to us that the American public didn't want to see a dramatization of a war that was already going on,’ Yemaya Royce, a spokeswoman for Bochco's production company, told Reuters.”

Yeah, that and the show sucked, “critically acclaimed” or not. Good riddance to this crap too.

There are mainly two kinds of people that really like war movies and TV shows; war junkies and chickenhawks who have a fetish-like attraction for all things military much the same way that dateless losers often have with pornography.

And then there are the politically correct types who loved this show because it portrays both the perfidy of the Bush administration and Pentagon brass and shows what losers the lower classes (who after all are the vast majority of the Army and Marine cannon fodder) are. The rural white hillbillies and jive-ass black and brown ghetto/barrio residents whose daily lives were a pathetic soap opera even before they went to war. In the elite’s estimation anyhow.

Laughing at them is a guilty pleasure that Hollywood, the coastal elites, academia, and the Comedy Central channel types all love to do, but dare not admit to. So they deny their contempt for the underclass by praising what a refreshing and honest view of “this war and the men and women who fight it” is. Yeah, whatever. So much for “critically acclaimed” methinks.

What did you expect Mr. Bochco? Given the daily news reports showing us all the mayhem and carnage in Iraq in painfully graphic detail and the media elite talking heads arguing about the war nightly on the cable news channels as well, what the hell was this death carnival and underclass soap opera supposed to provide us with in the way of entertainment?

--Ali Massoud