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Let me clarify: I never said TV shows represent real life. However they have to be based on some reality to be accepted by the audience.
For example, if a similar story takes place in India or Egypt, it would be ridiculous.
The bottom line is that a TV show about nice people who never do anything wrong and are generally happy would be really boring and get cancelled in about a week. Most Americans aren't murderers, either, but most of the highest rated scripted shows are crime dramas.
Let me clarify: I never said TV shows represent real life. However they have to be based on some reality to be accepted by the audience.
For example, if a similar story takes place in India or Egypt, it would be ridiculous.
So the question is how true it is.
Men still sleep around in these countries, they just have to be more discreet about it.
If anything I think Americans are more sexually reserved than other Western nations.
Let me clarify: I never said TV shows represent real life. However they have to be based on some reality to be accepted by the audience.
For example, if a similar story takes place in India or Egypt, it would be ridiculous.
So the question is how true it is.
That is truly the way upper-middle class white-collar Americans dressed in the 60s. Cars, home furnishings, pretty accurate as well.
Let me clarify: I never said TV shows represent real life. However they have to be based on some reality to be accepted by the audience.
For example, if a similar story takes place in India or Egypt, it would be ridiculous.
So the question is how true it is.
Why would the storylines be ridiculous?
Do you know in India there's an epidemic of married women getting STDs and HIV, especially truck drivers who visit brothels and hookers while on the road?
Do you know in India there's an epidemic of married women getting STDs and HIV, especially truck drivers who visit brothels and hookers while on the road?
That would be a different story from Mad Men. That would be a story about truck drivers visiting brothels while on the road.
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