I Love You, America

I rate this a '10' because... It touches my heart! That's actually a rare thing for me. As the show ranges about--largely hewing to format, but also throwing in stuff that breaks format--I find myself feeling a warm lovingness; it's a nice thing for a TV show to do, and it happens so seldom.

I understand that Sarah always threatens to spin out of control and drop a ball and lose the audience, but... I feel like I understand where she's coming from: She insists on pushing her cognitive function forward; that's her thing, right? That's the whole point of Sarah; why she hovers on the fringes of mass connection... which is the grail of TV, after all. In order to let her into the tabernacle of your heart, you have to decide that this insistence on her part is somehow endearing. If you can do that (and it's not all that hard), she's right up there with any of the finest wranglers of video product in TV history.

Very much looking forward to future shows! Hopeful that this newest creative fling on Sarah's part gets a toehold and hangs in there!

Make it beautiful, Sarah!