Blog by Sumana Harihareswara, Changeset founder

17 Jan 2002, 7:54 a.m.

How did an Aaron Spelling television drama concentrating on the…

Hi, reader. I wrote this in 2002 and it's now more than five years old. So it may be very out of date; the world, and I, have changed a lot since I wrote it! I'm keeping this up for historical archive purposes, but the me of today may 100% disagree with what I said then. I rarely edit posts after publishing them, but if I do, I usually leave a note in italics to mark the edit and the reason. If this post is particularly offensive or breaches someone's privacy, please contact me.

How did an Aaron Spelling television drama concentrating on the family of a Christian minister get so good? Oh, Seventh Heaven, the show that actually does didacticism relatively well, and one of my mass-media vices.

I watched a bit yesterday and....moral ambiguity? On television? (read to the tune of Berkeley Farms's tagline, "Cows? In Berkeley?")