Truth to be told, the last time I watched a full episode of ABC’s daytime staple The View must’ve been when Meghan McCain was a high schooler. It wasn’t a conscious decision to move on, but even back then, avid viewers were treated to the on/off camera theatrics of a group of elite women, who were specifically recruited by veteran journalist and show creator — Barbara Walters.
It’s been over two decades since The View’s heralded conception, and since then it has been branded as the pioneer for the other notable vehicles that have since followed the winning blueprint, like current daytime offerings, The Talk on CBS and The Real, distributed by Warner Bros.
We have to give props to the mechanisms at play that have sustained the viable currency of a quality talk show with a basic formula, featuring a collection of accomplished and diverse women with recognizable faces, who come to the table to share their views to a live audience.
Like I mentioned before, it’s been a minute since I treated myself to fresh episodes of the long-running, Whoopi Goldberg-anchored soap opera, which is exactly what The View has become in extremes, thanks to the persistence of Meghan McCain’s combative stance that keeps elevating to levels of acute inappropriateness.
