'Best Week Ever' is a guilty pleasure

WHEN VH1's "Best Week Ever" debuted in 2004, some critics viewed the show an unfortunate byproduct of the network's many incarnations of the nostalgia-heavy "I Love the . . ." series. After the '70s, '80s and '90s were picked apart and reminisced about, what was left to be dissected but last week? Some talking heads bemoaned the program as a symbol of the country's collective short attention span and television's lack of originality. After all, why come up with new material when you can just comment snidely on old stuff? Others felt that the network was simply taking a dead horse of a format and beating it until things got really unpleasant.