As I've mentioned in a previous post, I've been binge watching different TV shows. Since all my favourite shows are on season break and there are absolutely no good movies about right now (that I can watch from home I mean) I've resorted to re-watching the classics and start ones that I've never seen before.
American TV shows know how to capture their audience, They know the category of audience they ought to target and put content that attracts that specific group. For instance the shows Arrow and Flash are targeted at people who have grown up reading the comics (or watching the cartoon). So that's the Male 11-40 years age group. But for a show to survive, you'll need a larger wider audience so that if their content offends someone, they can rely on their back-up audience to keep steady TV ratings. The producers of Arrow cleverly casted Stephen Amell to target the female audience and Emily Bett Rickards for the male audience. I guess the Flash producers don't care about their male audience ('cause that show is dry...If you know what I mean).
Each show reflects the culture of the country. TV shows without sex in it kinda die out. Even if the show is a comedy or a drama there has to be a sexual component between the characters for American shows to workout, The frequency is so often that its making things awkward at home. As I've mentioned I've been watching 5-6 shows and ALL including Simpsons have sexual content popping up every few minutes. My mother seems to have a radar of some sort that makes her walk in right when and only if some sex is happening. And once she was sitting next to me and I was watching Game of Thrones (Totally my mistake. I forgot she was next to me). She wasn't really watching, but the moment she turned towards me to ask something, one character decides to grab the ass of a nearby lady. And my mother was like, "English TV". I immediately closed VLC without responding and turned on a Malayalam Movie "Amen". My mother walked away and when she returned, guess what was happening...yeah...the main leads were making out. What were the chances of that happening...
Malayalam movies may have progressed to emulate Hindi movies. But the serials are still the same as ever, Consumers of Western TV shows rely on sex, but in India that cannot be done (due to Sanskaar). What Indian serial viewers do instead is consume emotions. And that too not regular positive emotions. They want pain, mental torture, extortion, child labour, child marriage, physical abuse, vehicular accidents, racism, supernatural influences, extramarital affairs, murder, death, abduction, etc to get through a weekday. The aunties (and uncles) who view and discuss this grow retarded by the minute.
I'm not saying that the Western shows are any better either. But watching a bunch of oldies fight over why someone didn't wash their husbands clothes that day (or cook for their husbands/ go to some function/ show enough sanskaar) in slow motion using inside voices narrating every moment is just too much, And this is just Hindi serials, After Star network acquired Asianet, all the Hindi serials are being dubbed/remade into Malayalam and its just apalling to watch. Especially stuff like Karuthamuthu which is a serial propagating racial stereotypes of dark skinned people in a predominantly dark skinned zone of India (What were you thinking, Northies??)
Also serials for lowering the IQ of children have also been introduced like Balaganapathy and I'm thankful to whoever it was who filed a complaint to the TV corporations and had it taken down. But the damage had already taken its toll (it ran 300+ episodes before someone noticed that their child was acting like an obnoxious little psycho prick). If you watch it once you will figure out what exactly I am talking about.
Watch from 5:00 onward till how much ever you can tolerate. Warning : This is going to annoy you more than ever in your life.
Since all that on "Adult" TV channels is stupidity and propaganda of negativity. I'm going back to the roots. Cartoon Network. But alas, Ben10 and Chotta Bheem have taken that from me too. Bastards.
American TV shows know how to capture their audience, They know the category of audience they ought to target and put content that attracts that specific group. For instance the shows Arrow and Flash are targeted at people who have grown up reading the comics (or watching the cartoon). So that's the Male 11-40 years age group. But for a show to survive, you'll need a larger wider audience so that if their content offends someone, they can rely on their back-up audience to keep steady TV ratings. The producers of Arrow cleverly casted Stephen Amell to target the female audience and Emily Bett Rickards for the male audience. I guess the Flash producers don't care about their male audience ('cause that show is dry...If you know what I mean).
Each show reflects the culture of the country. TV shows without sex in it kinda die out. Even if the show is a comedy or a drama there has to be a sexual component between the characters for American shows to workout, The frequency is so often that its making things awkward at home. As I've mentioned I've been watching 5-6 shows and ALL including Simpsons have sexual content popping up every few minutes. My mother seems to have a radar of some sort that makes her walk in right when and only if some sex is happening. And once she was sitting next to me and I was watching Game of Thrones (Totally my mistake. I forgot she was next to me). She wasn't really watching, but the moment she turned towards me to ask something, one character decides to grab the ass of a nearby lady. And my mother was like, "English TV". I immediately closed VLC without responding and turned on a Malayalam Movie "Amen". My mother walked away and when she returned, guess what was happening...yeah...the main leads were making out. What were the chances of that happening...
Malayalam movies may have progressed to emulate Hindi movies. But the serials are still the same as ever, Consumers of Western TV shows rely on sex, but in India that cannot be done (due to Sanskaar). What Indian serial viewers do instead is consume emotions. And that too not regular positive emotions. They want pain, mental torture, extortion, child labour, child marriage, physical abuse, vehicular accidents, racism, supernatural influences, extramarital affairs, murder, death, abduction, etc to get through a weekday. The aunties (and uncles) who view and discuss this grow retarded by the minute.
I'm not saying that the Western shows are any better either. But watching a bunch of oldies fight over why someone didn't wash their husbands clothes that day (or cook for their husbands/ go to some function/ show enough sanskaar) in slow motion using inside voices narrating every moment is just too much, And this is just Hindi serials, After Star network acquired Asianet, all the Hindi serials are being dubbed/remade into Malayalam and its just apalling to watch. Especially stuff like Karuthamuthu which is a serial propagating racial stereotypes of dark skinned people in a predominantly dark skinned zone of India (What were you thinking, Northies??)
Also serials for lowering the IQ of children have also been introduced like Balaganapathy and I'm thankful to whoever it was who filed a complaint to the TV corporations and had it taken down. But the damage had already taken its toll (it ran 300+ episodes before someone noticed that their child was acting like an obnoxious little psycho prick). If you watch it once you will figure out what exactly I am talking about.
Watch from 5:00 onward till how much ever you can tolerate. Warning : This is going to annoy you more than ever in your life.
Since all that on "Adult" TV channels is stupidity and propaganda of negativity. I'm going back to the roots. Cartoon Network. But alas, Ben10 and Chotta Bheem have taken that from me too. Bastards.
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PS : Apologies for the late post. Been going through a major event in life.
PPS: Better ones coming through. Stay tuned.
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