Living with Ed

During my internet travels yesterday, I discovered that there is a new television program on HGTV called Living with Ed. The blurb for the program says:

TV and movie actor Ed Begley, perhaps the greenest man in Tinsel Town, rides his electric car to the Academy Awards and powers his home with the sun and his stationary bike. But Living with Ed and his environmentalist passion isn’t always a walk in the park for wife, Rachelle. This first-of-its-kind reality green show chronicles life with an earth-friendly fanatic with humor and heart. Check out this fresh unscripted docu-soap about the lifestyle of a diehard activist who puts his money and his time where his mouth is 24/7. Definitely not recycled TV.

So there was a dilemma. I’ve been TV free all week and not suffering from it in the least. But then this show arrived to tempt me. I caved. And what a mistake that was.

On the one hand, I’m delighted to see environmental activism, practiced in the home, brought to the wider public in easy to digest programming. But, for interest value or the protagonist vs antagonist slant, the husband and wife team on this program are at odds at almost every turn. By the time I’d finished watching, I wondered what in the world they see in each other and why they are still married. That overshadowed everything else potentially good about the program and it was disturbing. Well, I was disturbed, anyway. I don’t find any humor in spouses incessantly carping at each other.

Back to life without TV where peace reigns.