Post class for 4/13/10

I thought a lot about different tv shows i knew and loved in my highschool days and even now with relation to adorno and bourdieu and our conversation about the topic of sameness and making everything ordinary and scripted. I look at something from the late 60’s like scooby doo...which was a wonderful show by the way, but anyway things on that show were not as visceral or violent as they are today. there was a uniqueness in the different shows of that time. Yet i have been thinking a lot about modern shows and i come to the idea of Entourage, this show is clearly scripted and shown to the viewer to increase the already large aspirational gap. The main character Vince cant even drive a car in the earlier seasons and all he does is go around doing cool stuff and fornicating with everything that moves. Looking at the way that his brother and others (especially businessmen/women like Ari and Barbara). It spawned an entire way of acting even more pretentious in shows to the point where it was actually funny. It was a sort of hyperreal because it was so exaggerated. Yet at the same time it has spawned a good deal of spin-offs on certain characters that are in the show such as the yelling and screaming and profanity of the hypermasculine Ari, or the pretentious boyhood actions of Drama or simply the token stoner Turtle. Well i know it was a bit of a harder stretch to make but at the same time i see a good deal of shows starting to portray women the same way they are in that show as well as the way a “successful” man or woman should act and conduct themselves in society. It is actually really sad to see this, because when one good idea comes along they simply put out a ton of spin offs and bleed the entire idea dry until it is nothing left. Really sad isnt it.