But something has changed. Now we're escaping the everyday by immersing ourselves, not in a fantasy, but in someone else's everyday. This is truly novel. And truly worrying. It means that we're bored not with life in general, but rather our lives in particular.
Television has the power to raise up the ordinary and make it extraordinary.
We have forgotten that human life, at it's very core, is extraordinary. We have lost sight of the fact that we are each and every one of us a truly stunning miracle. It revealed us as a race who barter for beauty and money and little else. I guess the truth hurts. On this show, four committed couples will have their faithfulness tested.