Yep, I agree.
Just in general, I think the TV shows of yesteryear were better written, and didn’t strive to make so many political statements, such as how so many shows nowadays push homosexuality.
And apart from political statements, I get the impression that sitcoms have been dumbed down. We see people come out with some one liners, and the audience roars, and that’s supposed to be funny. If we contrast that with some comedies of the past, such as I Love Lucy, these sitcoms today just aren’t written in the same way. There’s not the same character development or any complexity to the plots.
I wonder if today’s TV writers, being young and educated since the ‘70s or ‘80s in our public schools, just don’t have the same story telling ability or imagination, as did the writers of the shows of decades ago. Just a thought.
Bump. Your reasoning is why the last TV I watched was Sarah Palin’s acceptance speech in 2008. Don’t miss it at all. From comments I read about today’s TV shows, glad I don’t watch. Who cares?
People that haven’t yet discovered the wonders of K-Drama don’t know what they’re missing.
For about $5 a month, at either dramafever.com or viki.com you have access to hundreds of shows from romantic comedies, historical and family style dramas commercial free and in HD. Or, you can watch for free with commercials.
If you have a subscription to either Netflix or Hulu, they’re also available there, all subtitled in English.
Production values rival anything produced in hollywood. Rather than “seasonal” programming, series are a set number of episodes, usually 16, but some of the more involved storylines run 50 episodes or more. Very rarely a series will have the scheduled number of episodes reduced because of low ratings, but a series will never be canceled without a conclusion to the story.
You will not see nudity, sexual situations or homo anything on a K-Drama. They are everything current American television is not.
Before I tried it, I thought I could never get used to watching anything with subtitles but I got accustomed to it very easily and I’m to the point now where TV without subtitles feels strange.
If you hate what Hollywood and the Lefties behind it are doing to America, stop funding them and try something new, where the people aren’t trying to destroy the family and social order. K-Dramas fit the bill.