Have you notice this trend?

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Most TV series start picturing innocent characters: a ‘nice’ girl falls in love with a ‘nice’ guy, and live a ‘nice’ life, etc. :angel1: Then on the second season things start taking a turn for the worse 😦 and by the third of fourth season -when there is a captive audience- things become really bad: the nice girl becomes an alcoholic lesbian, or the guy does drugs, or they live a life full of violence, pornoghraphy, etc. which they seem to consider absolutely normal :eek: (I heard this dialogue once: a guy tells his friend: ‘I did not think you liked pornography’. I expected him to answer: ‘of course I don’t’. Instead he replied in a ‘matter of fact’ way: ‘well, as much as the next guy’ :eek: ).

I’ve seen this happen in so many TV shows!

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It’s amazing, isn’t it, the way we are seduced into these shows, and yes, it does seem to be a trend. It’s almost as if it’s a conspiracy. It is a good opportunity to turn off the TV, pray for the writers and viewers, and find something more constructive to do.
 
Who watches prime-time network tv anyway? I haven’t in many years.
 
I don’t think it’s a conspiracy. I think it’s a warped notion of what maturity and personal development mean. In many of these shows the characters are teenagers, so they start out innocent and as they grow up are expected to have more sordid experiences. (Gilmore Girls is a particularly striking example of this.) Even when that’s not the case, the writers may feel as if in order to make the character real they have to give them more and more complex problems and deep dark struggles.

And I wouldn’t discount plain old commercial sensationalism. Shows that are perceived as too “clean” initially often get a lot of flak for it, because supposedly they aren’t “daring” or “real” enough. Or people just don’t watch them because they’d rather watch something more titillating. So relatively clean shows are forced to spice things up in order to compete.

Edwin
 
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Wow. Glad the only station I really watch is EWTN.
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