Undernotes Of Irony, With A Genuine Finish

One night this past week, we were doing our usual channel surfing and the husband joked, "What, no 'Real Sex: 9/11 Edition'?" (we have been watching "Real Sex" reruns on HBO and wow, that is some time capsule-worthy material, but that's for another post). With all the special programming such as "I Survived ... 9/11" and "Biography: Osama bin Laden" and "How It's Made: Ground Zero," you start to expect to see specials like "Sandra Lee's Ultimate Guide to Terror Attack-Commemoration Table Settings." But that got me thinking, a "Real Sex" episode filmed in the immediate months after 9/11 sure would be informative. I reckon there were a lot of self-destructive decisions being made, driven by guilt about surviving and the emotional abandon that follows the realization that sometimes, survival is probabilistic, and not something that is necessarily granted to the strongest, or bravest, or kindest, or humblest, or ... worthiest.