Very Sad T.V.

That new Bobby Brown/Whitney Houston TV show is the saddest television I've ever seen in my life. Besides the fact that those two are just a big car wreck that you can't help but slow down in order to observe the carnage...besides that, because it's a given...their daughter Bobbi is so very, very, truly sad and troubled. She's a depressed child in an ultra-dysfunctional household, and we are bearing witness to her development as a person who will likely be troubled for a long, long time. She's surrounded by cash and material goods and cars and homes, and she's also surrounded by a family that lacks a single healthy adult. She is unbearably alone, and has no safe haven or retreat. She's the most obviously depressed person I can think of on television, and that is more than sad; it's an absolute shame.