i remember this show from when i be a college student . i even have a moronic professor who assign u episodes to watch . it always rub me the wrong way and and i have to endure lynch mob like opprobrium from my contemporary when i try to explain why . especially when i say that i hop lance would just get it over with and commit suicide already rather than torture his family ( who love him and accept his homosexuality ) with his constant false alarm and solipsistic behavior . the show remind me of the sort of tv program show in the futuristic society depict in 1966 fahrenheit 451. a time and place where book and independent thought be ban . that film ( base on an early book by ray bradbury ) seem dated and even by the 70 and but be more topical than ever now . and it remind me of this series and where the life of insufferably self centered people supplant any and all large concern and include abstract and critical thought itself . the fact that this travesty run on a publicly funded station make it a milestone in the dumbing down of our society . group narcissism at it most nauseating .