This week Ahab was unfortunate enough to catch a little of the BBC’s latest attempt to appeal to the lowest common denominator, more usually known as I’d Do Anything.
Just the very name, I’d Do Anything, is dripping with so much post modern semiotic irony that Ahab nearly slipped over in it. In fact the title is so powerful that Ahab reckons we could just do away with the term ‘Reality Television‘ altogether and in future we should just refer to it as ‘I’d Do Anything Television.’
Reality Television is such a misnomer anyway, it’s obviously not real…..it’s television. At the risk of ranting on all day about the piss poor bollocks that has been offered up to us as entertainment over the last few years in the name of reality, Ahab is just going to pick a few holes in this example.
Ahab will admit that he is not overly qualified in the study of the works of Mr Charles Dickens, but it takes very little of his imaginative energies to note that the young Nancy is a girl of the street, Victorian lady of the night, a whore perhaps.
Whilst twee at times, Charlie was making some important statements about life in the big smoke, this bunch of tarted up tarts seem like something of a betrayal to Ahab and probably would to Dickens too.
Apparently the young lady on the left is Niamh, she’s an A level drama student from Northern Ireland and it seems that she’ll do anything.
Do you think she really will?
