There are a lot of reasons why one watches a TV series. It could be boredom or something one relates to. There has been a lot of TV series that has come over the years and I for one have watched a lot. Family drama, Love n romance, action and saving the world. The list goes on... Probably you are watching one right now too.
When it comes to TV series, I have noticed that there are certain things that the ppl who make them take into consideration. Mainly the anthropological aspects of human nature. How a certain human behaves when put into certain situation. You can see it in almost all TV series where the main protagonist is put to test. The situation tests the mettle of this guy or him and his people. This can be seen from game of thrones to peaky blinders. Hell even sopranos! But why am i talking about Schitt's Creek.
Few years ago I came across an article that discussed communist - socialist idea of equal distribution of wealth. Personally I am a huge Ayn Rand fan. Now ideological differences aside, it talks about what would really happen when all the nations wealth is taken and then redistributed to all the people of the world. Now a certain class of people would take the new found money and consume it .. some might see an opportunity and start something while some might invest and others may have other vices and other plans for this money. This reminds me of an old tale. It goes something like this...
Once there was a wealthy man with three daughters. Now the wealthy man was old and he was on his deathbed. So he called up his daughters to his side one by one. He then gave them a hand full of rice and said nothing. Few days later he called up all of them and asked what they have done with it. The first one said she cooked it and had it. The second one said she kept it safe in a vase. While the third one had sowed that handful of rice and turned it into a heap of cultivation. The wise man was impressed by this and wrote the will to her name.
while the above story may seem like a regular old folklore, it is totally related to what I was talking about earlier. The wealth distribution and so on. Even if the gates the rockefellers the buffets distribute the wealth to the world, for a few years it may seem that all are equal and there are no billionares.. But deep down we all know that the way they think and move, the decisions they take have made them what they are. And even if you strip them of everything they have, they will still raise from their ashes and make it big in life. Because they didn't reach where they are because of the money or situation. It is their way of thinking and how they act when put into certain situation.
Schitt's creek is a tv series about a billionaire family who lost everything due to a fraud and now made to live in a town by the same name which they had bought as joke. The ups and downs they face and the rich people problem become the comedic relief that we see now and then. The whole show has this easy going pace where you start at one episode and go on watching coz it just warms your heart. Right now I am at start of second season and there was a particular scene that made me write this article. Iam not going to discuss the scene and give away spoilers.
But I'll say this, if you get what I am trying to say. You know what I am talking about.
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