Subject: Weeds

Summary:
An American comedy/drama about a newly widowed mother of two, selling marijuana to make a living.

Significance:

This series, is spoof of the American Upper class showing their hypocrisy and making fun of the American suburbs and their lifestyle.

The main character is an excellent example of one of the housewives. Once the money making husband is dead, she does not want to get a job, instead she wants to make a lot of money really fact like every American. Thus she begins to sell weed. Throughout the series she gets caught and is placed in several life or death situations. Even though this happens she never gives up and still wants to make a quick buck.

Nonetheless this series is a play of the American lifestyle and how spoilt they are. The mentality is that if you are not in a huge house with a load of money and your wife is not working staying home with the kids, and you cant go to Cuba every year . You are a useless middle/lower class person.

A Showtime show about a lovable serial killer.

Dexter, is a serial killer. Why is this show famous? Last time I checked, murder is a crime that will put a man in jail for the rest of his life and in some places, die for his crime.

Dexter is one of my favorite shows, because it puts you in the make believe life of a real serial killer. Normally serial killers are known for being anal lonely freaks that are very anti-social. Dexter on the other hand, is a seemingly happy man that can fool just about anyone.

The reason why I like this show is because it deals with realistic problems a serial killer would have. For example:

The show deals with Dexter's constant struggle to maintain his secret life (murdering people) while keeping his family and friends unsuspecting of his acts.

On several occasions Dexter talks about the murdering process, and the reason why he doesn't feel guilt after. Dexter's foster father was a police officer that saw at a early age Dexter was addicted to killing other beings. His father taught him how to kill a man properly without getting caught and how to do it efficiently. Later on, he teaches him to kill guilty people. Criminals that are above the law and deserve to die.

This leads me to what I wanted to discuss. Whether people deserve to die. In this show, they lead to to believe that some people do deserve to die. People above the law that can afford the best lawyers to fight their case and let them loose with a fine or a few months imprisonment. These are rapists, murderers and evil people.

Dexter goes through an extensive research, which he calls "the hunt" where he decides whether or not this person deserves to live or die.

This show deals with some themes such as, how precious a human life is, can all play god, who deserves to live or die, and the question of morality.

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An HBO hit comedy about a movie star and his Entourage.

Vincent Chase is a guy that lived in Queens, NY. He grew up in a house where his father never made over $100,000. Yet now hes a hit Hollywood star living with his best friends growing up making $100,000 for one commercial.

Entourage. This show screams quality. It is THE BEST SHOW EVER. It deals with the themes of brotherhood, friendship and much more.

This show is basically a spoof of Mark Wahlberg's first few years in the Hollywood industry. The tests, trails, and problems Vince has to go through are created by Mark's first hand experience and stuff hes seen other actors experience.

The show shows us how even when you are filthy rich, you have to remember where you came from and you initial goals. Vince is a character with strong moral values and principals and whenever Hollywood forces him to break them, he always makes a stand.

The show also deals with the importance of friendship and why your friends are always the most important people in your life. Why its also good to have good friends.

Overall, I have seen 78+ episodes of Entourage. Not one of them was a filler or stupid episode where i felt myself saying afterwards, "what the hell did i just watch". In fact, after most episodes I felt so happy that I wished I had such loyal buddies. This show is defiantly worth everyones time and every penny if you choose to buy a whole box set.

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An American hit TV show about a group of people stranded on an Island after a plane crash.

Now, I dont want to get too much into the story since I hate giving away spoilers.

All I am going to say, is that after the first 19 episodes I was in love with this show. I am noted for hating mainstream TV shows. Shows that air on FOX, CBS, or any other channel like that. But this show still had the main element of mainstream TV, which I will discuss later.

The reason why I really like the show, was because of the depth of the characters. The characters in the show have such deep and complex stories and elements that I was shocked. There is one character that is probably my favorite for several reasons. The way this character was written, and the struggles he had gone through had made me want to cry. He was in a wheel chair, all his life people restricted him and told him he had no potential. He was a foster child, his dad met him for the first time when he was 30 only to steal his liver. And many other sad tales.

Nonetheless, before I ramble what I wanted to discuss was the difference from mainstream TV shows (LOST, Big Bang Theory, How I Met Your Mother, etc.) to shows on HBO and Showtime (Dexter, Weeds, Entourage, etc.)

Now one of the main differences is you pay exclusively for HBO and Showtime. Due to that one fact, you do not get stupid commercials. You sit down and watch an episode of Entourage, you will watch approximately 28 min of footage out of the 30min you sit down for. If you sit down to watch an episode of Big Bang Theory, you will watch 18 min out of the 30 min you sit down for with over 12 min of commercials. This right here is another example of how lower class people watch these shows because they cant afford the extra high class TV shows on the other channels without commercials.

Also, I find that mainstream TV shows are structured in a way, that will create a climax or important point, only to be interrupted by a commercial break or the end of the episode. This way you HAVE to watch the commercial so you are sitting on the edge of the seat so the TV station will out your show on prime time. This is almost never the case with ther other shows.

I feel you get better quality shows, less media infused crap in the shows that air on HBO and Showtime. Whereas, on FOX and CBS you will watch a show that is structured to get the station the most amount of views and money, and keep the show you are watching for season after season.

Like Prison break. They got out of prison. They got back into prison. They are on the run. Good guys become bad. Bad guys become good. The shows are redundant and are meant for you to keep watching it. They are caught in an endless loop that once you are in you need an intervention to come out.

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