Gilmore Girls is a television show that focuses on the fast talking, coffee drinking, rock and roll listening, life of a mother and daughter. The mom, Lorelai Gilmore, came from a wealthy, well to do family. Her life as she knew it, was filled with private school, and fancy parties. Until, at age 16, she became pregnant. She chose to keep the baby, and make a life of her own. All without the kind of help her parents would give her. Her baby, Lorelai “Rory” Gilmore, and her moved out their home and went to live in a small town called “Stars Hallow.”
The series begins sixteen years later, Rory is a brilliant teenager that has got accepted into the private school “Chilton.” Rory’s dream is to attend Harvard University as a journalism
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I began watching this show when I was 15 years old, and I agree with the rating that is given. It is a great show to watch, especially for teenage to young adult girls, yet I do not recommend having a child under the age of 14 watching it. There is mild bad language, and some sex scenes. Though, I do feel that the amount of sex scenes and the profanity in the show was increased in the later seasons rather than the first couple …show more content…
The show is well represented by all ages, races, and genders. There are kid and teenager characters such as Rory, Paris, Lane, Dean, Jess, Clara, and April. Adult characters include Lorelai, Sookie, Luke, Emily, Richard, Ms. Patty, Babette, Morey, Taylor, Christopher, and Jackson. Both, females and males, are well represented. Although the cast is white dominated, there is some diversity. Lane and her mother, Mrs. Kim, are Korean and Michel Gerard is black. The characters are of all different shapes and sizes. It is not a cookie cutter mold. Rory are Lorelai are commented throughout the series for being extraordinarily tall. Rory’s best friend, Lane, and Lorelai’s best friend, Sookie, are on the shorter side. There are also skinny and fat people. There does not seem to be any discrimination on people’s appearance in Gilmore Girls. I cannot seem to think of or find any stereotypes or generalizations made in this show. The group of people I think might take offense by this show is the wealthy. Lorelai tends to “bash” the rich, including her parents, Emily and Richard. She seems to think that their way of living is unnatural. For example, Emily wanted to have a portrait done of Rory, but Rory’s pose for the picture included her holding her arm up like a ballerina and having a swan sit on her lap. Lorelai had to tell her mom that that pose
Happy Gilmore is a comedic 90's movie about the transition from an ineffective hockey player to a talented golfer. This is a 1996 film, Adam Sandler, who portrays Happy Gilmore faces few obstacles when learning how to play golf. The reason why he joins a golf tournament was that he needed the money to save his grandmother's house. His grandmother has not pay taxes for past 10 years so she owed $270,00 otherwise her home would be lost. Happy Gilmore is a naïve and absurd character that struggles with anger issues but later learns how to deal with it through dumb childish humor. Throughout the golf tournament, he has a nemesis, Shooter Mcgavin, who is arrogant that gets jealous at Happy Gilmore for his hidden talent at golf. Although Gilmore has serious anger issues, his patience and dedication teach the audience that one's passion is not always something one is good at.
Analysis of Friday Night Lights Friday Night Lights is a good view of how football envelops the live of everyone in the Texas town of Odessa. While it does use football as a main theme, I don't believe it is a book mainly about sports. The story is mostly about the people in a town that has nothing to look forward to except football. The story chronicles the lives of a few players and their parents. The author describes their background, characteristics, and reactions to football and life
First titled Life and Stuff, Roseanne aired its first season in 1988 and its last season in 1997. The show starred Roseanne Barr as Roseanne Conner and John Goodman as Dan Conner. The couple lived in Lanford, Illinois with their three children Becky, Darlene, and D.J. They are a blue-collar, working-class family with both parents working outside of the home. They struggled just to pay the bills and put food on the table, sometimes each working two jobs. It portrayed real life issues such as pre-marital sex and pregnancy, financial struggles, sexuality, infidelity, death, drugs, and much more. In the first of its nine seasons, Roseanne (Barr) works at Wellman Plastics, along with her sister Jackie (Laurie Metcalf) and friend Crystal
I chose the television series American Horror Stories to do my analysis on breaking the norm in television. I chose this series because it breaks all of the norms due to its graphic content. The show is geared for a more mature audience and is rated TV-MA. Programs rated MA are unsuitable for children under seventeen.
The definition of coming of age refers to the hardships and achievements in a young person’s life. It is the gradual development of a person and who they become. Sophia Bush plays the character, Brooke Davis, in the show One Tree Hill. Brooke Davis is the character most girls can easily relate to. Sophia Bush says her favorite part of the character she plays is her “evolution”. She starts off as a stereotypical teenage cheerleader who seeks to be the center of attention and her happiness revolves around money. Throughout the beginning of the series, Brooke is a young, carefree girl who is rambunctious. She constantly went to parties and had many sexual relations with numerous amounts of boys. Emily states, “I hated her in the beginning because she was always trying to stir the pot, always creating drama.” Even though it may have appeared her life was not complicated, the many obstacles she faced helped her transition from childhood to adulthood. She grows into a more sophisticated and grounded young woman.
In this episode of Family Ties, Alex (the oldest child in the Keaton family) gets the opportunity to teach a class on economics at the college. His girlfriend Ellen gets put into this course. The two of them are concerned with the fact that they are a couple, and how this will affect his teaching her. He states that he will treat her the same as the other students, which he doesn’t. He is harder on her and she reacts in a way that is disruptive to the class. In the end they solve the problem.
Gilmore Girls is a quirky TV show about single mother Lorelai Gilmore and her daughter Rory. Viewers are shown Lorelai and Rory going through their everyday lives in a small town called Stars Hollow. Lorelai wants the best for her daughter so when Rory gets to opportunity to go to a private high school, Lorelai does everything in her power to give Rory the change to go, even if it means that Lorelai has to reconcile with her parents. Lorelai dreams of running an inn and Rory dreams of attending Harvard, so the show is centered on these two plots. The show also has subplots of romance, comedy, and family drama. This isn't the type of show that I would normally watch, but since the show includes a lot of comedy I gave it a chance and it became
Full House is another sitcom which was aired from September 22, 1987 and ended on May 23, 1995. The Show is primarily set in a family type genre and it’s about a single father trying to raise his three daughters in San Francisco, Ca. Yet, the twist with this show is that their household also occupies their two uncles who bring different aspects of life with them. In a more detailed statement, The Father (Danny Tanner) is a television host to a show called “Wake up San Francisco” and is a widowed father to his three daughters (D.J., Stephanie, and Michelle). When becoming a single parent, he realizes that the work at the beginning was too much for him to handle and decides to get help from his brother- law Jesse Katsopolis, a musician and friend
Vince Gilligan’s ‘Breaking Bad’ is a TV series about Walter White, a chemistry teacher, who starts cooking Methamphetamine to provide money for his family. In an interview with The New York Times, creator Vince Gilligan said the larger lesson of the series is that "actions have consequences". He elaborated on the show's philosophy: “If religion is a reaction of man, and nothing more, it seems to me that it represents a human desire for wrongdoers to be punished. I hate the idea of Idi Amin living in Saudi Arabia for the last 25 years of his life. That galls me to no end. I feel some sort of need for biblical atonement, or justice, or something. I like to believe there is some comeuppance, that karma kicks in at some
Gilmore Girls follows the lives of three women in the Gilmore family. Rory, the youngest, is a teenager at the beginning of the show. She is an only child and was raised by her single mother, Lorelai, in the small town of Stars Hollow, Connecticut. Lorelai is in her thirties throughout the show. She became pregnant with Rory when she was sixteen, and left her wealthy parents’ home to raise Rory alone. Emily, the
Amy Sherman-Palladino, the creator of Gilmore Girls, essentially wrote the show about nothing. After not having a job for years, Sherman had writer’s block. On television, everything she saw seemed the same, identical characters and paralleling plots, she desired to create something different. Once, she had visited the small town of Washington, Connecticut and loved the “everyone knows everything” idea. So she thought, “Why not make a show about it?” After tweaks by the production company, Gilmore Girls was born. Although it is a show about a single mom, by nitpicking through character’s witty banter, one can see the philosophical aspects of the show. One of Sherman’s main goals was to create no analogous characters. In this attempt, she
In todays modern society, there is now a constant growing concern about adolescent’s exposure to the medias portrayal of sexuality and love. The publicity of love and sex that todays adolescents are saturated in is mainly unrealistic and false, theoretically affecting and distorting their, behavior, beliefs and attitude towards sex and love. These impractical pictures tend to commonly be publicized through social media, networking, television and movies. The medias views tend to contradict the biblical messages towards love and sex, confusing young society on the meaning of true commitment and love. A popular television show targeted to the demographic of female teenagers ‘Gossip Girl’ features and emphasizes the wrong messages concerning love and sex.
This sort of rating usually subverts common horror ratings as it is very low but this was requested by the film makers. The film starred Daniel Radcliff an actor who starred in the renowned harry potter series of films all rated at 12A so Radcliff’s fans that are usually younger were attracted to the film which aided in it’s lower rating the film makers wanted to appeal to this so the film was not as graphic as some other horror films but some parents and the BBFC still has some concerns for the children watching it at age of 12 because they found that supernatural being convincing children to kill themselves and murdering people would disturb younger children the children who wouldn’t usually watch horror films were brought by Radcliff another scene were concerns were raised was with the woman in black hanging herself from a noose and the young girl setting herself on fire with an oil lamp so they cut certain scenes darkened certain shots and reduced sound affects to achieve the lower rating which is all unconventional of a horror
“There are always stereotypes in high school. People are placed into groups. You’re a jock, you’re a cheerleader, you’re a freak, you’re into the drama department. I had a lot of trouble fitting into those groups when I was in high school because I wanted to be a part of all of them. One Tree Hill represents people who are multidimensional and who like more than one thing.” Hilarie Burton, who plays Peyton Sawyer, says it perfectly herself. One Tree Hill shows diversity among all. The use of every “stereotype” is used in this series to allow every viewer feel as though they have a place, making the show significant for young adult viewers especially. The main characters in the show are all friends, yet they all have different interests. Despite the drama, relatable for any high school viewer. While other shows place teens into certain stereotypical groups, One Tree Hill does just the opposite by allowing everyone to be themselves. Dissimilar from most shows on television and stereotypes of high school, One Tree Hill does a substantial work of portraying the diversity of all people by bringing all together.
The times mature content is censored is on TV. Many people watch TV so the possibility of a child watching a mature show is high but it censored to a degree. In Japan, Article 21 of the Japanese Constitution guarantees freedom of expression and prohibits formal censorship. “Freedom of assembly and association as well as speech, press and all other forms of expression are guaranteed. No censorship shall be maintained, nor shall the secrecy of any means of communication be violated” (Japanese Constitution). Videos Games and anime from Japan will have nearly any forms of sexual content be censored with the teams creating product asked to either “add clothes to the characters” or make the female character's “less sexy”. This result of censorship in america has resulted in anime and video games creators hesitate to released materials to america. There's no such thing as "underage" when it comes to art. “These characters are pixels on a screen, not people. Even "of-age" characters are, in actuality, less than one year old when most of us see them; and on the flip side, characters who've been around for a long time, like Lisa Simpson, are in their 20s. The age the character is given in continuity is just a number. It's not representative of anything real.If these were real people, yes, I'd agree it's something that cannot stand. But they're not. And that makes all the difference in the world”