Must See TV (in that you’ll be shocked it’s actually on TV)
UPDATE: In news that is surprising to absolutely no one, Viva Laughlin has been cancelled making it the first true victim of the 2007-2008 television season (Nashville was pulled and Online Nation was cancelled, but those shows weren’t scripted). I’m going to walk out into the newsroom and start singing about this. READ MORE
Tonight at 10:00pm CBS is previewing Viva Laughlin their new casino, musical train wreck which will be moved to Sundays before its ultimate cancellation. Here’s the deal: there has not been a show this bad in years. No, not even Cavemen. Cavemen fails because it’s completely uninspired. Viva Laughlin fails because the inspiration was completely misappropriated. It’s such a bizarre concoction of genres and nonsense it is absolutely worth checking out (at least once). Let’s just put it this way, at one point in the pilot Melanie Griffith breaks out into the worst rendition of Blondie’s “One Way Or Another” ever captured on a motion-based medium. It’s astoundingly awful, and funny… really funny. Watch it, at least for a while. You have to know what you’re missing.
