I'm one of those assholes who doesn't own a television and mentions it in the first sentence. Not that I'm above television. I just got tired of paying for 500 channels of garbage when I only wanted to see about 3 hours of garbage a week. And that garbage is available online.More than thirty years ago, when there were only four channels and cable was the hot new thing, Jerry Mander argued that TV was irredeemable regardless of what anyone put on it. As if to prove him right, Tru-TV recently launched Jesse Ventura's Conspiracy Theory, and I caught a couple episodes on the web. It's appropriate that the show is on Tru because it is truly bad. Badly conceived, badly written, and badly acted. It's so bad I felt embarrassed watching it by myself.
And that's without even considering the subject matter. Even if there is a nugget of truth anywhere in this show, it is completely discredited by the awfulness of the presentation - from the fake command center where Jesse gathers his crack investigative team to the fake secret meetings in warehouses - Conspiracy Theory is like In Search Of in a 'roid rage.
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