Everyone has experienced boredom, whether it be waiting for something, stuck in school, or just nothing to do. Fortunately for tedious students, binge watching provides a glorious solution to boredom. According to a small poll conducted among Thomas Jefferson students, the top 10 binge watching shows are Modern Family, How I Met Your Mother, Grey’s Anatomy, Orange is the New Black, the Walking Dead, It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia, the Office, Parks and Rec, Breaking Bad, and American Horror Story. Such shows have grown in popularity for many reasons due to their humor, intensity, award winning actors and much more.
With the 2016 year now upon us, the time has come to watch tv. Leading the pack, Modern Family has been raved upon for being a hilarious family comedy. First airing in September 2009, the mockumentary now has seven seasons featuring the lives of Jay Pritchett and his family, all of whom live in suburban Los Angeles. With a similar light hearted feeling and mockumentary style, The Office and Parks and Rec both have received a great deal of popularity since premiering. Following the everyday lives of the office employees in Scranton, Pennsylvania, The Office is perceived as a laugh out loud, goofy comedy. Through the life of a mid level bureaucrat in an Indiana Parks and Recreation Department, the inner workings of the
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With the supernatural and apocalyptic shows growing in popularity, The Walking Dead follows a sheriff waking up from a coma and reuniting with his family as they struggle to survive in and adapt to a world filled with not only dangerous zombies but humans as well. The goosebumps and chills continue with American Horror Story an anthology horror television series that contains a new twisted plot in each
To start off, Modern family is a show that started that in 2009 that falls within the genre of American sitcoms. Blending the idea of sitcoms with a family orientated plot, this show has been very popular among television audiences. As the title claims, the show tries to portray modern families. The family is made up of an older white male, and a younger Colombian trophy wife and her son from her first marriage. There is also another family consisting of a hard working dad, an over controlling mom, and their three children. Lastly, there is a family which consists of gay co-parents and their adopted Vietnamese child. While these family structures appear to be modern, the gender roles presented within the structure suggest something different.
When was the last time you experienced a good laugh? Maybe you were watching a show, reading a book, or even hanging out with friends. Either way you were probably observing, comedy. Which in literary terms is a genre of literature that is created in a humorous nature for a purpose of making people laugh. A television show that can be categorized as a comedy is Parks and Recreation. The show is about a crew members that work in a parks department for the government in a small town called Pawnee, Indiana. The main characters consist of Leslie Knope who later in the show marries Ben Wyatt. April ludgate who later marries Andy. Ron Swanson, Donna, Tom, and Garyy. They all work together trying to make the city of Pawnee a better place. They play pranks on eachother, but also have strong friendly bonds.
The Office is an NBC produced show that provided comedy on Thursday nights for eight years. The Office is all about the employees of Dunder Mifflin who live in Scranton Pennsylvania (the electric city). The documentary style show films the employees working at the paper as well as filming their personal lives. An average episode of The Office is typically thirty minutes long. But the series had a few hour long episodes, depending on if it was the beginning of the season, or the end. The series finale is one of the few episodes that was an hour long. The series finale displays many different types of listening that was explained in class. Listening is important to any and all types of conversation. Without it, it would be impossible to receive and interpret messages.
Following the success of the US version of The Office starring Steve Carell on NBC, Parks and Recreation, a small-town government political mockumentary, premiered on NBC in April 2009. The show trails Leslie Knope, an employee of Pawnee, Indiana’s Parks and Recreation department, as she pursues both her political and altruistic ambitions to better the town and perhaps the entire country through bureaucratic hard-work. The audience journeys through the amusing political climate of a small middle-America town, as Leslie attempts to beautify and magnify her town via new parks, programs, and events. With thanks to the talented, comedic cast, including SNL’s Amy Poehler and The West Wing’s Rob Lowe, Parks and Recreation aired for 7 seasons, recently
The show was launched on February 23, 2009. Jay Pritchett sits at the head of a large and unique family full of drama, love, and compassion with good times and not so good. Jay is now in his second marriage. He marries a young beautiful woman. By the name of Gloria she has a 12 year old son whose name is Manny. There are many misunderstandings and culture crashes between them. But also “sweet victories”. Jay has a grown daughter Claire who is married to Phil. They have three children Haley who is the eldest although they try to have an open trustworthy relationship with their children it is not always easy. This is because Haley is growing up a little too fast and her love life is humorous at times. There middle child is Alex she is way smart. Then there is the youngest who is all over the place Luke. Jay’s Son Mitchell also Claire’s brother is busy with life raising his adopted daughter Lily with his partner Cameron. As they have a very different personality these men try their best to keep family close and solve issues with love. The fashion in this show is very diverse everyone has their own way of dressing it all depends on their personality. Although it is nothing like the 70’s show The Brady bunch it shows that people have always been able to express themselves in color and pattern. The role of men in modern family is very different than in the Brady Bunch this is because Modern family Bring out the new culture and
The Office is more negative with their humor than Parks and Recreation. A lot of the humor on The Office comes from making fun of or bringing down the other characters. This kind of a comedy makes for a funny and intriguing TV show. Also The Office has a bigger cast. Throughout the 10 seasons, the cast gets bigger. Some of the characters leave throughout the seasons and new ones will come in. Parks and Recreation is a smaller cast, and does not have as many characters that come and go through the seasons.
From “Sons of Anarchy” to “Nip Tuck”, FX has created popular TV dramas over the years. However, none of them has had such significant popularity as Ryan Murphy’s “American Horror Story”, known for its blood and gore, and “Glee” known for its sharp social commentary. The creation of these TV series led to the drastic rise to stardom of Ryan Murphy’s career. Though “Glee’s” stint on TV has ended, it was a highly acclaimed series with high ratings. Today, “American Horror Story”, his project following “Glee”, is now one of TV’s highest rated series, which is an especially peculiar accomplishment for a TV series of this genre. Therefore, when the creation of a new horror TV series was announced, nothing but sheer greatness was expected.
Ever since the first zombie movie was created in 1932, there has been a constant rise of zombie appearances in popular media. Like with all monsters, the majority of zombie media aimed to represent a certain aspect throughout the society in question. Whereas vampires represented romanticism and Dracula represented how a certain social group was viewed during a certain time period, zombies in Romero’s “Night of the Living Dead” aimed to create a situation whereby a group of people had to survive a night together, despite their racial tensions between one another. Being the founder of all subsequent zombie films, “Night of the Living Dead” provided a guideline for zombie behavior. As time passed, more and more versions of the zombie came out, whereby zombies stopped being a plot device and turned into the focus of the film itself. The Walking Dead, currently standing as the fourth most popular TV series, took a turn from this progression and decided to imitate Romero’s take on zombies. By including zombies which simply aimed to sustain themselves by consuming the flesh of the “live,” the creators of The Walking Dead caused the remaining survivors to gather together and rely on primitive human instinct to survive. Even though the zombies in this series run rampant, they play a very minimalistic metaphoric role. Instead, by presenting the zombies as a plot device, the characters in this series were able to demonstrate their true prejudiced view on society, ultimately revealing
Television is a wonderful window on the world. It appears as an excellent opportunity for citizens to be entertained when they have free time on their hands. Several genres are available including comedy, action, and many more. There are a variety of shows available worldwide, yet The Office is an extremely popular television series that could possibly be the show of the century. The show holds an outstanding amount of awards, including the best television series in 2006 and 2008. The Office is a mockumentary about the Dunder Mifflin Paper Company in Scranton, Pennsylvania. This television series consists of nine seasons with about twenty episodes in each season. The show contains several immature office workers who behave inappropriately with ego clashes. The Office is the most outstanding comedy of this generation because of its use of humor, characters, and plot.
The Walking Dead is a horror television series that premiered on Halloween of 2010. This series is based on
The popularity and appeal of the undead has greatly increased in the past few years with the rise of the popular television show, The Walking Dead. The show began in October 2010, and is still on the air today. Before the show was created, there were The Walking Dead comic books that were first published in 2003, and continue to be published today with over 148 issues. The fascination did not begin with The Walking Dead, though. Many movies were produced, and many books published before The Walking Dead was even thought of. An extremely influential individual to note is George Romero. Romero is an American-Canadian screenwriter, film producer, film director, and editor. He is best known for his series of apocalyptic films, beginning with Night of the Living Dead in 1968. Romero has been nicknamed the “Godfather of the Undead.” Some other works of fiction and film to note include 28 Days Later, I am Legend, Pride and Prejudice Zombies and The Zombie Survival Guide, also by Max Brooks. Our cultural fascination with “the return of the dead” can be traced back to the events and the general morale leading up to World War Two, and the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945.
Binge watching also referred to as binge-viewing or marathon-viewing is watching television or a single television show for a long time span. It has become a very popular cultural phenomenon because of the online media services such as Netflix, Hulu, and Amazon video. Viewers can also watch television shows and movies on-demand in a binge-viewing manner with cable and satellite services such as Time Warner Cable, Dish Network, and DirecTV. Movie apps and Amazon Fire TV stick also make binge watching adaptable. These companies offer their patrons their services at very affordable prices and therefore making it that much more convenient. Entire seasons of shows such as Orange Is the New Black and House of Cards are just two of the many shows viewers can indulge in. Other shows that are shown on television and not released at the same time, such as Breaking Bad and Undercover Boss can be found on Netflix and encourages binge watching. Binge watching has changed the relationship between the series and its audience in many different ways such as giving the viewer total control to choose when and where and for how long he or she wants to view the show.
Today society displays greater diversity within households. Most American households are now non-traditional or unconventional. Non-traditional or unconventional families include; single parenthood, singlehood and LGBT relationships. Modern family is a comedy exploring the different “modern” families. This show explores a huge unconventional family through a gay couple, made up of Mitchell and Cameron, and their adopted daughter Lily; a straight couple comprised of Phil and Clare, and their three children, Luke, Alex and Hayley; and a multicultural family which is comprised of Jay and his much younger wife Gloria and their son Manny. Modern family explores how the present day family is defined and , modern America means for family members. Despite Modern family’s groundbreaking success in representing non traditional families, the show continues to reinforce heteronormative values through stereotypes of queer identity in regards, gender roles within the relationship, gay adoptive parents and gay marriage.
The author showcased through his writing that survival is critical in the world and also pointed out that Americans like the zombie genre because they believe they can survive anything with the right tools and
The Walking Dead is a televised American drama series about a group of people trying to survive a zombie apocalypse developed by Frank Darabont. The series stars Andrew Lincoln as sheriff's deputy Rick Grimes, who awakens from a coma after the world yields to a zombie plague (Griffiths, 2011). Dazed and confused from months in the hospital he wanders out to figure out why he cannot find anyone alive. He makes his way home only to find his wife and son missing. He sets out to locate his family and finds many other survivors on his journey (Tucker, 2010). The Walking Dead coordinates with many social themes such as