TV just can't help it. And the arrival of 2000, swelling with Significance, seemed tailor-made for TV's trivialization by overkill. But beyond the partying, the arrival of 2000 has been, at some point, spiritual and ethereal for many people, a sense you just couldn't extract from TV's coverage, incredibly exhaustive and technologically impressive as it was. This New Year's, unlike others, caused us to look inward and examine what we feel, more than what we see. And, in all fairness, it couldn't have been expected to.
Television is highly adept at summarizing a year or even a decade in review.
Predictably, among the locals, the folks at Channel 3 came across as the silliest millennial merrymakers, too obviously determined to be surrogate party-hearty hounds for those at home. Read our policy on privacy and cookies.