However.
Moment of Truth (a Fox show, natch, and one hosted by Mark L. Wahlberg, natch redux) might be more than even I can stomach. Contestants are hooked up to lie detectors and asked that people should never be asked on television while hooked up to lie detectors. (For example, according to MSNBC, "a Colombian version was shelved after a woman there revealed she put a hit out on her husband.") For half a million dollars, they have to answer 21 of these questions truthfully. The previews have been horrific. A woman visibly cringes when asked if she and her husband will be together in five years. Presumably, her family is watching. Quite probably from a few yards away in the studio audience. Are we serious, here?! This is an entire show devoted to one of maybe five things I would ever seriously refer to as a sin: the act of going for your partner's jugular. If I may wax philosophical for just a second, love, for me, is about exposure of those softest, most sensitive parts, and then trusting that the exposee will never, ever go there. Not even for half a million dollars. I can't imagine what it would feel like to hear my husband tell the entire country that he isn't sure he's sticking around another five years. (Uh, or that he'd tried to pay to have me murdered.) I tried, and I just can't see this as entertainment.
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