Lauryn McNair #5

TV is pretty cool in the sense that the idea of one or a few, can be transformed into some pixels and provoke emotions or feelings in other people. TV is often portrayed as mindless and a waste of time, but it's also a good medium between people. Ideas, messages, opinions, are able to be transferred between mass amounts of people in a relatively short amount of time and in a way that entertains. Even if some shows are mindless or seem to have no point, can anything be useless if a lot of people use it?
By my prior statements, it's pretty obvious that I do watch TV. I think TV is a great way to, not so much "escape reality", but live the one that you can't. If that makes sense. Growing up very quiet-at least in public- and terrified of rejection and ridicule, I didn't make too many friends. That, coupled with the fact that I lived out-of-district for 7 years, I didn't spend too much time with my friends outside of school. Luckily for me, I really enjoyed reading. Back to my idea of living the reality that you can't, reading allowed me to do this. My choice of books being Harry Potter and the Percy Jackson series, I obviously and to my extreme dismay, could not be a witch or a demi-god.
As homework picked up in ninth grade and suffocated me in tenth, reading became harder and so my TV watching increased. Then in 2014 I was introduced to the wonderful world of Netflix. Netflix allows me to explore the great what-ifs in the world through entertaining 42 minute episodes. Like what if I was a rich, privileged teen growing up in New York with way too much time on my hands like in Gossip Girl. Or what if I was a poor, sloppy, 20-year old from Queens who found themselves working for one of the biggest fashion magazines in the country, as seen in Ugly Betty. Or what if we had a competent,bi-partisan government with enough liberal edge to make me smile as such is in the West Wing?
Basically, TV exposes me to a lot of new point-of-views.