I'm starting to give up on TV again. For about a decade, thanks to "Buffy," I was convinced that TV could be worthwhile. Now everyone and their brother is trying to prove me wrong.

(True, too, about the treatment of "furriners" on TV. I mean, if it's not Balki or Yakov Smirnoff . . . man, I can't think of a single good depiction of a foreign character on recent TV.)