In case it seems to you that I’m always in raptures about shows I see, something completely different: saw a TV show yesterday that has had rave reviews and that I absolutely hated, “Sally4ever,” from Britain, about passive, nearly brain dead young Sally with a horrible job, an appalling partner – one of the most abject, repellant specimens I’ve ever seen on television – and ghastly parents, who is sprung from her hideously lame life by a passionate lesbian relationship that is shown in graphic detail, including her lover pulling Sally’s tampon out with her teeth and spitting it onto a frothy white dress Sally was supposed to wear to her wedding. And incidentally, the female lover is also a lunatic (played, incidentally, by the writer.) 


Every single person was loathsome in some way or other, obviously meant to be satirical ha ha, but to me it was just black-hearted. I thought of E.B. White who said once that with his writing, all he hoped to show was that he loved the world. This writer hopes to show that she hates the world because it’s full of disgusting human beings. What’s the point?