29 Jun 2006

Cloistered

Generally speaking, I'm a Reality TV hater. If I happen to pass through a channel showing Big Brother, Strictly Come Dancing, Celebrity Tank Driving, Life Laundry, How To Be Thin/Pretty/Young or any of their ilk, I hit the 'next channel' button with a little cry of distress. I'd rather watch paint dry.

But somehow I've got sucked into watching The Convent, and I'm finding it fascinating. I nearly got put off by the trailers in which the four women who were going to spend 40 days in the Convent of the Poor Clares in Arundel were portrayed as petulant, rebellious drama queens. I'm not sure that my opinion of them has changed greatly over the course of the series (though several of them seem to have quite serious psychological problems), but it's well worth watching for nuns alone.

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