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Should You Keep Dating Nobody Wants This?
I admire the chutzpah of titling your TV show Nobody Wants This.
If it’s bad, you’ve led your series and its creative team directly to the pitchfork mob in the middle of the discourse town square, for critics and people on social media to shout, “More like nobody wants this show!!!” (A laugh track likely plays in the head of every person who thinks they’re clever for saying this.)
If one person doesn’t like it, or doesn’t like even just an element of it, there’s a smug, “Well, Iiiiii don’t want this,” a certain individual-centric righteousness that seems to thrive these days.
On the flip side, the title is perfect, albeit corny, marketing fodder should people become fans: “We think everybody is going to want this show!”
I spent

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