The worst thing about TV is not its badness. As long as we can still point out that something on TV is "bad," we continue to invoke traditional aesthetic standards. Such criteria are not relevant to TV today, which is less recognizable as "bad" as it becomes increasingly self-referential and televisual. For all its promises of "choice," TV is nearly perfect in its emptiness, all but exhausted by the very irony that it uses to protect itself from hostile scrutiny.