"Typically, bad yet addictive TV shows, which some people refer to as hate-watches or guilty pleasures, fall into the reality genre, where we revel in the antics of real people we'd never befriend if we met them in person. But every now and then, a scripted TV show comes along and adeptly straddles the line between watchable and unwatchable, fun and not fun, scratching the same itch as its good-bad movie counterparts. Something about these weirdly exhilarating shows -- maybe it's an actor, or a well-drawn character, or an intriguing premise -- compels you to fire up the next episode, even though you know that it's never going to get better, and will likely only get much, much worse."
