First off, a confession.
I have used my Netflix account to watch television shows that I would never have watched ordinarily. Over the course of three days, I watched twelve back-to-back episodes of Greek for the first and (hopefully) last time.
Please understand me; I was sick with a cold and couldn’t concentrate on Battlestar Galactica—I’m currently on season four—because I accidentally skipped half a season. I know that a cold may seem like a lame excuse for watching a TV show about the Greek system, but my head was swimmy and I thought it would be fun to make fun of the show. (Of course, since I was watching the show by myself, making fun of it lost some of its thrill.)
I was annoyed by Greek right away. I won’t keep you waiting—here’s my incredibly complicated list about the things that annoyed me about Greek.
Things That Annoy Me about Greek
1. The bar in Greek: It’s too fancy to be a college-type bar, all ages can drink there—even the dorky freshman Rusty never gets carded--and it seems to be the only bar in the entire town. (Granted, I didn’t attend the same college, but most college towns have more than one bar since getting drunk, having sex, and puking is what college is all about.)
2. The black, gay fraternity brother Calvin in Greek: Calvin has too many strikes against him from the get-go. I know that it probably represents a certain segment of the population, but how many smoking hot, black, openly gay guys (with preacher dads) actually pledge fraternities? Not too many. His character reminds me of the gay, deaf character in the stupid Sarah Jessica Parker Christmas movie. I understand the need to be PC, but this is OTT. The character himself isn’t that annoying, but the fact that he exists at all is.
3. The incredible power of the sorority presidents in Greek: The presidents of the main sorority in Greek wield enormous influence and power over the lives of their hapless (and lesser) sorority sisters in Greek. A sorority president’s power includes more than just room selection and control over pledges; the president of a sorority can force her sorority sisters to date (or break up) frat guys based solely on their ability to help the image of the sorority. While I was never a member of the Greek system, I haven’t come across too many sorority sisters who are that power-hungry.
4. Greek’s main character, Rusty: Rusty is just a wimp—he is nothing like his beer-swilling namesake from the National Lampoon’s Vacation movies; there is nothing all that likable about him at all and the whole idea that smart guys don’t pledge frats just isn’t true.