We have a subscription to Entertainment Weekly magazine. In last week's issue, under the "What to Watch" column, it described a special airing Wednesday evening called "More True Stories from Touched by an Angel."
Now, any sentence including the words "true" and "angel" is likely to make me raise an eyebrow. Here's the description of the show:
Roma Downey, Della Reese, and John Dye host the special that looks at how Angel has transformed the lives of its stars, guest stars, and yes, some lucky viewers.
I suppose the truly scary thing is that there was evidently a first special about this, given the inclusion of "More" in the title of this show.
I didn't watch the show. (Hey, it was on at the same time as "Dharma & Greg" and "Two Guys, a Girl, and a Pizza Place.") So I can only imagine what kinds of stories were told about the impact of "Angel" on their lives.
But let me just say that anyone acting in a successful television show is going to have his/her life "transformed" by the show. I mean, get real! How could it not?
My own life was "transformed" by some TV shows, not to mention movies and books. I wrote in Cardigan on Morality of how my early moral code was influenced heavily by a film and a comic book character, for example.
I imagine, though, that the show probably tried to impress on the viewer that it was the religious nature of "Touched by an Angel" that was the reason for these alleged transformations of people. (I could be mistaken, of course, but I doubt it.)
I can attest that even the most mundane things can transform our lives, though. The subject matter doesn't matter, and only the gullible will believe that this particular show is more likely to elicit such changes than any other.
Even "The Jerry Springer Show."
