HBo's The Wire

For this paper, I have chosen to analyze the sitcom That 70s Show. This show follows the lives of a group of teenage friends: Jackie, Donna, Hyde, Kelso, Eric, and Fez. The show addresses many social issues of the 1970s, including: Sexism, sexual attitudes, drug use, and the recession. It also highlights many of the inventions and developments of the entertainment industry, such as the remote control and Star Wars.

In today’s society there is a wide variety of TV dramas shown for entertainment purposes such as CSI, Grey’s Anatomy, Code Black, as well as NCIS. Unfortunately these shows have the capability to alter someone’s perspective and respect that they have for the people that have to cope with these situations in their everyday life. The show, CSI, directly correlates to the article by incorrectly portraying criminal profiling, which is the message that Gladwell wishes to knock. A similar situation occurs with Grey’s Anatomy as well as Code Black, which are both hospital dramas that incorrectly show life in the ER and busy hospitals, romanticizing the life that they live no matter how wrong the portrayal may be.

The consequences of these people making their relationships expendables means they are pushing away and sacrificing the people that love them the most in order to obtain something they think they want/need, but overall has very low importance to their lives.

Black women deal with challenges every day, whether it’s because of their race, gender, class, education, religious or sexual ties. When it comes to Black women we tend to view their issues as either race or gender related to the exclusion of other aspects of their identity and their intersectionality (Bryant-Davis 114). The show Insecure, an HBO comedy series created by Issa Rae, focuses on the sisterly bond between two young professional black women living in Los Angeles. The show demonstrates the challenges that black women face on a regular basis, whether it’s finding love, navigating a white dominated workplace, battling stereotypes or finding their identity. Although Insecure deals with many important sociological issues, the focus of this paper is the representation of Black women in the workplace, specifically in a white environment and the microaggressions they encounter in their attempt to succeed in their careers.

A large factor that influenced Randy 's success, was the life he was exposed to growing up. Randy explains how wonderful his parents

Jeff Davis, writer of Criminal Minds, and MTV’s Teen Wolf goes by the motto “Always be learning” (Cardillo). Well, this sure does show in the series Teen Wolf. The Writers went beyond expectations and based on their views, all of their hard work has payed off. Teen Wolf is an excellent series, in which you are always learning more along the way. What has really made this series amazing is its outstanding script, excellent actors, and fascinating secret reality and plot line.

The last person we are going to talk about is Randy. Randy is a man who had just gotten out of prison after serving 16 years for murder. Through the whole movie randy has been struggling with finding a job because everywhere he tries to go just looks at the fact that he served time for murder. During the movie Randy is always looking at the bright side of life and looking toward his family to get him going in the right direction, and he even has another child with his girlfriend. At the end of the film Randy is doing great and living up to his expectations of his parole.

It’s all in the game. Though these words belong to the nefarious Omar Little of HBO’s critically acclaimed “The Wire” and not Plato, they nonetheless remain relevant. If anything, “the game” is akin to Plato’s allegory of the cave and the shadows that it casts. That being said, I will make the argument that anyone who doesn’t play by the rules of the game or tries to alter it, much like the prisoner who sees the light and goes back to aid his fellow prisoners, will be rejected. The only means of retaining a livelihood in the context of the Wire and its characters is to remain in the cave and entertain the idea of the shadows being reality for just as the prisoners in the cave are disillusioned by the shadows they perceive to be reality,

One of my friends, Dylan, watched the show on the first week it aired on Netflix and has ever since been trying to persuade all his friends, including me, to watch it. Now at first, I was reluctant because I already had my hands full with school and had my eyes already glued to three other TV shows, them being Mad Men, Daredevil, and The Wire, so adding another to my to-watch list just didn’t make much sense. In addition, Mad Men and The Wire both had seven and five seasons respectively, was already a heavy

In June of 2010, ABC premiered it’s first episode of Pretty Little Liars, “Pilot,” by Marlene King. Spencer, Emily, Aria, Hanna and Allison were best friends who told each other everything. Secrets are what held their friendship together, until one of them goes missing. During this episode one sees the start of Spencer, Emily, Aria, and Hanna’s torture through the uses of a secret allegory, flashbacks and a major conflict.

Prison Break created by Paul Scheuring who is an American screenwriter and director known for his 2003 film A Man Apart. Scheuring is also the head writer and executive producer of prison break, which is a story of two brothers, one of whom is sentenced to death for a crime not committed by him and the other brother formulates a plan to help him escape from the prison. This drama series premiered on FOX in 2005 and the first season received positive reviews and because of the good ratings it was extended to 22 episodes instead of the planned 13 episodes. Prison Break's audience is generally in the age group of 18 and up as it contains violence and sexual and drug references. The first season revolves around the rescue of Lincoln Borrows which is played by 44 year old English born Australian actor Dominic Purcell who is accused of murdering the brother of vice president of the United States of America.

Excellent television programming can leave a lasting impression with audiences. Particularly if the show embodies relatable themes that viewers are confronting in their lives. Such was the case for the hit television series Breaking Bad. Breaking Bad is a critically acclaimed fictional crime drama that tells the story of a brilliant high school chemistry teacher named Walter White. Walter’s life is bland and uneventful. He has a wife and a teenage son with a lifelong disability. He is underpaid as teacher and holds a second job as a car wash cashier to make ends meet. His financial struggles put a strain on his marriage and home life. Just as things could not get any worse for Walter, he finds

I agree that the lecture's representation of the differences between literature and popular writing is harsh. To me, literature deals with moral issues and life's dilemma, and this is shown through the popular movie the Titanic. Although on the surface it may seem like a piece of popular writing, but it shows characteristics of literature as well. The Titanic has an original plot, realistic characters, and like most pieces of literature, does not have a happy ending.

Buffy the Vampire Slayer hush is one of the unique episodes from the series because instead of having dialogue theres more musical cues. Theres an unpleasant evil presence its claimed to be “The Gentlemen” it has almost everyones voice in the town. One of the character named Giles find that the only way for this creature can be stopped is if a woman screams. But the group has to fight the monster voiceless which is Ironic because its the only way it can be stopped so no one else looses their voice. In the story we can see how Buffy Summer seems to be taking the leader role throughout the series. For example in the particular episode we can see how Buffy always seems to have full control of what she really wants to do. One scene really stood

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