| Irish Television's Top 5 Crap Sets « Spire Spy – The News On Irish ... Feb 23rd 2012, 01:16 | Sometimes, something just affects you so much, you are spurred into action. For us, the tipping point came in the form of Xposé's seemingly completely random choice of backdrop for their interview with Zooey Deschanel. A living room. A very modern living room, complete with a breakfast bar and spacious arches dividing one room from another. In fact, it's a whole apartment. But where is the relevance, we ask? It's not the home in 'New Girl', Zooey's new sitcom. It's baffling us. We could talk about it all day. Even Karen looks a bit pissed off with the whole situation.  "Like, what is this, lads?" Anyway, we got to thinking. Why is Irish TV intent on blinding us, its audience, with awful sets and backdrops? Xposé aside, here's our top 5 current programmes that often require sunglasses and/or a quick panadol. 
- Bog Stop of TG4 must have paid all of €10 to source and construct this limp set. Being a children's show, you'd imagine they would make it less 'dodgy swaying Funderland contraption' and more 'amazing fun land with less glass and more foam padding'.
- Ah, Midday. The only show still using MS Paint text effects for their superimposed logo. After a session of watching Midday, you may begin to feel as if you can never unsee the glaring shade of purple that stares back at you with a burning vengeance upon your retinas.
- The Juice's set isn't half bad, but we still are docking points for Sinead Kennedy's brooding 'serious face' portrait that just pierces our soul, and distracts our weary eyes.
- TV3′s Take Me Out seems to have improved their set in the latest series, but it's still reminiscent of a room you'd imagine accommodates alien probes. Clinical, with a flaming primary blue, it cuts itself loose, bordering the human figures with razor sharp edges that will cut you. It will cut you. Cut you harder than these desperadoes when they find out their 'dream man' has been ridin' their 'bezzie' in the jacks of Coppers.
- We have a winner! Vincent Browne's pixelated backdrop is as dated as he is. If you cross-section that set, polystyrene dendrochronology can be used to date it back 100,000,000 years. Props for colour coding, though. Alarming, glowing red, can alert us all to the danger our unprotected eyes face ahead. Be sure to click on the image above for the full whammy—you will regret it.
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