One of the more remarkable things about having a blog, is that a blog is a soap box for the blogger to express his/her distaste for any bugaboo that annoys at the moment...
Today, I want to speak about the Sundance Channel's Love/Lust. It has been slacking off..
Okay, it was doing well when reporting on the history of fashion, though I still regret that the episode on the history of the bikini covered Bridgitte Bardot, but not Ursula Andress..
Now, tell me this moment of cinema didn't help popularize the bikini!
The second season, though? Their episode of Street Eats didn't cover the contribution of the Greek Agora to the culture...
The episode about secret societies? Where's the name drop of Aleister Crowley? Robert Anton Wilson? How can you discuss cults without them?
How can Love/Lust discuss the paranormal if it doesn't discuss Anton LeVey and the Church of Satan? How LeVey re-conceived Satan as a Prometheus figure? Again, where's Crowley? And where's Charles Fort and the Fortean Times? Would there have been A Kolchak: The Night Stalker, an X-Files or Fringe without Fort?
Speaking of Kolchak.. Why did Love/Lust omit the works of Richard Matheson and Ray Bradbury when discussing Vampires?
Why does the episode about sex symbols in history only mention Justin Bieber as a "teen heart throb" without antecedents such as Donny Osmond, Shaun & David Cassidy, or the primogeniture Ricky Nelson? Where's the mention of Tiger Beat as the great force in propelling them to stardom?
I'm truly grieved that the episode on social networking had nothing to say about Bjo Trimble or Forrest J. Ackerman, who had done so much to bring their respective communities together...
Maybe it's wrong of me to expect more from an one hour TV show. But omitting some of the scale and detail of their subject matter bothers me.
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