Camp

"41.  The whole point of Camp is to dethrone the serious.  Camp is playful, anti-serious.  More precisely, Camp involves a new, more complex relation to 'the serious.'  One can be serious about the frivolous, frivolous about the serious" (Sontag).


This quote really stuck out to me (which I'm about to note on the attendance sheet).  It was one of those "aha!" moments.  And it made me think about the show Chuck, which aired on NBC from 2007-2012.  I've been rewatching it with my boyfriend, and a few episodes in he said this - "It's like a B film, but for television."  I'd never thought about it like that before, but he was totally right.  It takes itself so seriously (even when it's trying to be funny), but it's not really serious at all.  The situations and solutions that the main characters come up with are completely over the top.  And, like its B story predecessors, it is pretty campy.