I think there is something wrong with the average TV viewer here in the US. Writers have great concepts and lovely series. Like how the Desperate Housewives started or what we recently discovered: Army Wives. But the interesting and nice stories somehow does not satisfy the average TV viewer here. It seems that writers are forced in the 2nd or 3rd season to introduce violence, murder, stalking, crazy people in the story. A personal apocalypse. And that disappoints me.
We recently started to watch Army Wives on Netflix. My father was an army officer in Hungary. Of course, that cannot really be compared how it is for someone serving the the US Military, but still, somehow I felt connected. I loved the story. I found it fascinating and very entertaining and in same cases lovely. So as soon as I started to like the show, the whole concept changed. One is stalked, the other one is getting a divorce, got cancer, became a drug addict, got raped. And all these in the very same episode...
Do we/you really need this? Is it the viewer who forces these changes? Or writers just run out of ideas after 15-20 episodes and they then use the standard library of violence to compensate for their lack of creativeness?
Either way it is wrong. And sad.
Is this really a society that finds stalking, mass murdering, raping, drug addiction and the collapse of a family's life entertaining? Or is it just a few sick people in charge and the television networks?
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