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Eithne Shortall: Pathetic plots and daft dialogue – what’s not to love about crap TV?
Mediocre telly has its merits: it’s mentally undemanding, safe and predictable, like wrapping yourself in a familiar old blanket
Have you watched the Sex and the City reboot? Entitled And Just Like That . . . , the show picks up nearly two decades after the original series ended. Sex and the City was ground-breaking television. It showed women on prime-time television casually talking about sex; not just wanting it, but the particulars of the act. There was nothing like it for years afterwards. The four protagonists were all self-centred and obliviously privileged, but ...