Tonight’s TV: NEXT: The Future Just Happened

A and E broadcast part one (of two) of Michael Lewis documentary NEXT: The Future Just Happened. Oddly, I’d just written on the book version a couple of weeks ago. Still haven’t read the book but decided to watch the show. The problem, at least with part one, is that it’s too much of a mishmash, going from teens doing adult things on the ‘Net to a roundtable with old fogie lawyers (one of whom happens to be Lewis’s dad) to a town in Ireland that is possibly that most heavily wired of any in the world. Yes, Michael, the Internet is changing things immensely. We get it. I don’t think I’ll make it to part two tonight.

The NY Times weighs in on the show.