Blog Entry: Mad, Bad, and...well, possibly just bad after all
Today at the library I did something rash. I was looking at the DVD rack, and I saw it: a really, really trashy-looking TV miniseries. But it is SO my kind of trashy miniseries. The cover trumpeted:
Johnny Lee Miller IS Byron!!!!
And it showed a photo of Johnny Lee Miller (aka, Mr Knightley in the most recent TV version of Emma) with really, really poofy hair and a mad grin on his face.
I looked at it. I turned it over to look on the back cover for any good reviews that could possibly imply that it really was a good miniseries. There were none. No quotes at all...about the movie, at least.
The one quote on the back cover, made to look as if it were about the movie, yelled in big letters: "Mad, Bad, AND Dangerous to Know!"
...which, y'know, is actually an old quote about Byron, not about this particular two-parter. But I read the back cover anyway.
WILL Society's darling find that he has gone too far if he has an affair with his half-sister? Will he?
I couldn't help myself. I checked it out.
Here's the thing: if Byron were set in modern-day London, I wouldn't have felt an ounce of temptation. But set a piece in Regency England, and I just can't help myself. I think, Wellllll, how bad can it be?
Of course, all too often, the answer is: VERY bad. We'll see how this one goes...knock on wood!
What about you guys? What are your favorite trashy movies/TV shows? The ones you might not respect in the morning, but you couldn't help watching anyway?