Making sense of soap operas

[jace]

David Foster Wallace on Television:
TV is not vulgar and prurient and dumb because the people who compose the audience are vulgar and dumb. Television is the way it is simply because people tend to be extremely similar in their vulgar and prurient and dumb interests and wildly different in their refined and aesthetic and noble interests.

(Via Vinu.)

Comments

[inspirethoughts]

Hmm...I never understood soaps, not then, not now! Uh Uh!

[jace]

The oivas I know wouldn't leave Bombay and isn't into financial reporting. But who knows?