You know, my mum has been watching all these korean and hongkong tv dramas on dvd every day and every night. And I just notice one thing. They are all so depressing! These TV families are full of family feuds, fighting, cheating, divorce, murder and every bad thing that you can ever imagine. Their lives are absolutely pathetic, depressing, but hell, asians like to watch them! What's wrong with Asian TV?
Can't we have hits like the Cosby Show? Sex and the city? Friends? Seinfeld? Okay those are comedies. Yeah action thriller 24 is kinda depressing. Prison Break and Heroes is kinda optimistic. Or at least the stars are working together towards a better tomorrow. CSI, Alias, ER, at least it looks as if there's light at the end of the tunnel.
Asians actually watch their pathetic depressing TV shows and laugh! That's the most amazing thing. I feel that work is depressing enough, I can't be watching depressing TV shows at night and laugh about it. My TV staple? You're talking bout SouthPark, Colbert Report or the Daily Show. Yah it's all online cos my parents are watching the stupid DVDs on the TV heh.
Well back to why people watch depressing shows and laugh. They laugh cos they feel their life is depressing and miserable too, but hey, there's somebody else more pathetic than them on TV, and hella stupid too! Perhaps its a reflection of reality, and the laughter is kinda in a sadistic way. Otherwise, even on local channel 8 I don't see why anybody would take pleasure in watching anything after 9pm.....
We in Asia need to lighten up. Yeah, cities are overcrowded and overpopulated everywhere, but we need to enjoy the sweet smell of leaves falling in the park and some crude jokes on Seinfeld. We need to laugh more on the train and smile when we get into the office in the morning. Otherwise our society will remain the sorry pathetic depressive state that it is currently in, where laughter appears sadistically only in the presence of depressing soap operas...
World class? Wait long long lah!
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