Viacom Media Networks
What the fuzzick?? Why is MTV trying to piss me off - AGAIN? No other channel has such capacity for disappointment and full-on rage. A channel that was once supposed to be the purveyor of all things cool cannot crawl itself out of being a hot, damn mess.
Okay, taking a deep breath to gather my more rational voice. While MTV continues to strip away the music (not even music video links on the home page), it has given us reruns of My So Called Life, plus new comers like Awkward, Faking It and Finding Carter. I had to give up My So Called Life because life goes on. I retired Awkward because post-Twilight I have a low tolerance for the unrealistic scenario of two men fighting over a woman. It seems every man that Jenna comes across ends up throwing themselves at her, and while I'm not for full-on realism, I'd like more than a dash of relatability. And the gag of Faking It can be tired despite great supporting cast – I'm out. Now, for relative new-comer Finding Carter, I'm still sort of in, though in the throes of season two with the constant, full on ragers, my interest is waning. There is no innocence.
All of this I was willing to cast aside until something/or someone really jumped the shark, leave it to MTV to do it themselves. Viewing Finding Carter is now under lock and key - just look at the icons. If you want to see a free episode, you have to travel back twelve episodes, the rest pre and proceeding the twelfth are locked. So it's now easier to stream Must See TV, that the lineup on MTV. Thanks Viacom, I just bought myself another hour each week.