Does "Desperate Housewives" represent American people?

Question

Lfie styles, values, behaviors, efforts to make individual goals come true etc.

Answer 1

I sincerely hope not that show gets on my nerves.

Answer 2

ONLY IF YOU WANT IT TO.

Answer 3

No - it's drivel. Pure Hollywood escapism .  I very much doubt it was intended to be anything more.

Hey Nancy I'd a rumor heard you were dead -something about a drug fueled suicide pact in a seedy New York Hotel.  Nice to see it wasn't true!

Answer 4

In the same way that Disneyworld's "Main Street USA" does, yeah. Largely if it's on TV, it's a sad caricature of US culture.

Real life seems a pale and poor substitute for such programs where everyone is overly rich, beautiful , sexually active and otherwise obligation free.

Disturbingly, even some shows that are penned as "realistic" tend to be the most outlandish. Consider things like "Law and Order", which from a dramatic perspective are not significantly different from "Battlestar Galactica" in / with respect to how much drama can be packed into one hour.

It's alot less about the grim situations of both of these series or the improbability of the circumstances. While Law and Order is based on reality, these cases are one in a million situations, but we see them every week.

This gets the CSI effect, where science fiction and the near-science fiction of TV shows has negative effects on actual activities, like the space program or prosecutor investigations.

Whatever amazing thing NASA does kind of pales in comparison to what you can see on Battlestar Galactica or Star Trek.

Whatever awesome prosecution or defense legal arguments are made, folks always seem to feel cheated that the 50,000 dollar p-DNA poly-peptide tests weren't done....just to be sure.

Answer 5

NO NO NO make it go away

Answer 6

That comparison in the American context is not correct. In America, I do not think the housewives are desperate. I do not even regard the behaviour of the people of America as desperate as house wives any where in the world are supposed to be.