It's easy to think the show is cursed because its major hosts were all involved in controversies and criminal incidents one after the other.
As if the hosts all had a meeting and decided to schedule their "incidents".
Anne: I'll tell people I'll buy them first.
Vhong: Sige, tapos I'll buy food and dala sa condo.
Vice: Dapat kasi si Jessica Soho na lang dinalan mo ng food.
Jhong: Wag ka nang magpadala ng food. Selfie na lang ng food i-send mo.
Billy: Ako na lang padala nyo -- sa presinto.
Colleen: (Giggles)
Do you watch the show?
I do.
Regularly?
No, I don't.
But just watch the show for five minutes and see, sense the forced smiles being injected into every second the show is on-air.
It's mandatory now that live shows and its hosts be NOT JUST happy but "Super Happy" to the nth degree, at times unnaturally, for at least 90 minutes or throughout the duration of the show.
I don't know why.
Maybe because feigned happiness pulls the ratings in?
Maybe because when viewers see happy people on TV, viewers buy more Anne-Curtis-endorsed products?
Maybe the country is just so sad that it needs an afternoon show to remind itself to be happy?
Just listen to its theme song and how they start the show.
Careful. If you have diabetes & you watch the show, the saccharine sweetness could make your blood sugar levels jump.
Except for Vice's edgy & offensive humor and the spontaneous reactions of audience members or contestants, any other laughs on the show are forced and lame.
So if you're required to be "happy" each day for 6 days a week, where would all that angst go? Where would the spontaneous, natural "You" go?
We all know where Anne's angst went.
We all know how Vhong dealt with his.
We all know Vice processes his on the show & on his stand-up routines.
Jhong takes pictures of his angst and posts it on social media.
Kuya Kim, being the genuinely decent man he is, performed a dance on the show once. It was a very trying-hard kind of dance (the sort of thing you do as if to say `let's get this over & done with, I think I'm enjoying this too anyway, I think, & I'm doing this for my family because this is the best gig I've had) & I remembered thinking, dude relax you could hurt yourself convincing yourself you like what you're doing. And then he had a medical incident.
We also now know where Billy's angst went. First he drinks it all away. Then, we get to watch it all in TV Patrol & GMA News or The Buzz.
It's Showtime is not cursed. Its hosts are just (compared to the image/version of themselves seen on TV, commercials, media) being real.
Maybe the problem is how they want to be seen, how they want to be perceived. Their projected images don't jell with who they ARE. Maybe they should just be the latter than the former - that is if their commercial endorsements would allow them to.
From a YouTube commenter.
