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This American Life, Season 2

        Season 2 of This American Life begins on Showtime this Sunday. I’ve got mixed feelings about the TV show because I love the radio show so much. I love the radio show because it’s so unique in how it is delivered. Almost as if you, as a listener, is sitting around a dinner table, listening to these very real, touching stories. And while the TV show accomplishes the same storytelling technique -- and does so very beautifully -- it looses the intimacy of radio.
        Instead of a voice, clear, crisp, coming to your ear, you look into a box and see visual images that coordinate with the story line. There is a certain distance created between a viewer and the images on a TV, almost as if they are not really happening. Like 9/11. When the Towers came down. It just wasn’t comprehensible.
        Because the radio show was so unique, the TV show, while different, just feels ordinary, like everything else.
        Still, I’ll be downloading the show from the iTunes store on Sunday.