What's Wrong With TV?

What’s wrong with TV? Why is it that so many of us use the TV as if we couldn’t live without it? The TV is addictive. It really is. It draws us into watching things that really don’t even matter in life. Like game shows for instance, when is the last time you watched a game show? Was it really necessary for you to watch it? Could you of been doing something else? Something you needed to get done, something productive? But you had to see if the contestant won the million dollars, right? A lot of the time when we watch TV we do it just because. We don’t really have a reason. Maybe we’re just bored and want something to do, or are too lazy to do the things we’re supposed to be doing. Most of us could just sit on the couch and search through channels and channels just to see if there is anything on, even though we’ve already gone through the channels twice before and know that there’s nothing on that would be worth watching. But yet, we still search. The TV is honestly addicting, it pulls us into many shows and movies, and even commercials. It’s like chips or candy, you can’t eat just one. Once you’ve gotten a taste and liked it, you have to go back for more. Think about it. A lot of us have our TV shows that come on once a week, and we’d die if we missed a new episode. But lucky for us, technology invented Te-bo, which lets us record our favorites so that we don’t miss anything important. So many things and new technologies make it so easy for us to be lazy. When I come home at the end of the day and walk in the door, most of the time our TV is on and my family is gathered around watching. Whether it be educational shows, cartoons, comedy shows, investigation shows, or even just the news, it catches the attention of them all. And when I arrive I can’t help but join in on the watching, and try to figure out what’s happening. I hadn’t even been watching the TV show, but yet I became so interested, so fast. When my family watches TV, they watch TV. They don’t like talking during the show, especially when people ask questions to try to understand. They hate that, it annoys them so bad. They become so into the show that they don’t care about anything else in the world it seems like. You have to wait for commercials to even get a question in about reality. It’s crazy how the TV does this. Another example is my mom. If you’ve ever watched the lifetime channel, you know there are a lot of shows about drama on there. My mom loves that channel, and can be caught watching it a lot. She doesn’t care if the show has just begun or if it’s in its last 15 minutes, she’ll get drawn in by the movie, and watch it until it’s over. I’ve caught her crying when watching a movie that she’s only seen the end of. I mean talk about getting your attention. She hadn’t even seen the show before, let alone she was only watching the last ten minutes. But it drew her in enough to make her cry. Addictive, that’s what the TV is. We get so caught up in the action and drama of the television that it takes us out of reality and places us in place where we just sit and watch. It shows us things that we know we don’t really have to be watching, but for some reason it just seems like you can’t get away. You’re stuck in the show, and you can’t get out of it. That’s what’s wrong with TV— once you’ve started, you just can’t seem to get enough.