Jonathan Last

Family Values on ABC
August 5th, 2005

The other night I noticed that Cruel Intentions starring Sarah Michelle Gellar, Ryan Phillipe, and Reese Witherspoon was on cable. Of course all sorts of movies appear on cable television, though I happen to notice the station logo in the bottom right corner said ABC Family. Of course, Cruel Intentions is a family movie. Gellar plays step-sister to Phillipe, whom she also teases with the promise of anal sex should he do as she tells him to. And there’s nothing un-family about Gellar’s saliva-string kiss with Selma Blair, who plays the dumb innocent in this teen remake of Dangeorous Liaisons. ABC Family Values … for the post-family era.

Anonymous August 5, 2005 at 8:16 pm

Last night on CBS during the 8:00 PM show I saw an ad for K-Y Jelly. Now the ad emphasized that it was great for a back massage but it also emphasized it was a personal lubricant. Also the people in the ad weren’t acting like it was going to stop at the massageWasn’t there a family hour time at one point? The kids don’t know it yet but as of last night they are banned from broadcast TV except for sports and Hogans Heroes.

That Dude August 7, 2005 at 7:06 pm

Yeah Ive seen some wierd shit on ABC family that would seem better off for Skinemax.

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