Avoid Samsung; No, Really.

For the benefit of my readers (both of them), I offer tonight's installment on consumer protection. Yes, the national news has been horrendous this week, but there's nothing like planned obsolescence in appliances to really add insult to injury.  Every evening as if on cue, our Samsung Television (Model UN40N5200AFXZA) stops working and has to either have its cache cleared in the Support / Device Care menu or our Wi-Fi network must be completely reset.  Having just dealt with an expensive Samsung fridge giving up the ghost, I'm not sure what prompted me to make this highly questionable Best Buy purchase in the first place. I must crave exciting episodes of borderline torment by household appliances.  (Talk about First World problems, eh?)

And, don't get me started on Samsung support.  The good news is you don't really need to understand them through their broken English, because they will tell you to do a hard reset on your television. This seems to be their top piece of sage advice. There's also one that appears to involve unplugging everything in the household and performing a different and mysterious kind of reset altogether.  Or, there's the one about running a cord from one's router to their television to see how that works. Considering the router is upstairs and the television is downstairs, I can't say I have tried that one yet. The one about getting into pajamas and carrying a chinchilla on one's shoulder whilst juggling is also frequently cited.

So, thinking of buying a Samsung television, Model UN40N5200AFXZA?  Don't even.  I have to go now and re-enact my own personal version of the Twilight Zone's "A Thing About Machines" episode.