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🗓️ 7 August 2015
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Father Mike discusses why our culture is addicted to "mature" content on television. This addiction is a sign of deeper issues facing society.
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0:00.0 | Hi, my name is Father Mike Schmitz and this is Ascension Presence. |
0:08.1 | So I was thinking the other day, actually a friend asked me, Father Mike, how come all |
0:12.1 | of the best shows on TV right now are all TVMA? |
0:15.3 | You know what that means? |
0:16.3 | That's like the TV rating system. |
0:17.8 | That how come, like not the good shows, they're all kind of like dirty. |
0:21.5 | There's game of thrones, there's the walking dead, there's things like buses driving |
0:25.0 | by, there's that real TV show. |
0:27.4 | But I think you can actually make it into a TV show. |
0:30.2 | Think about it. |
0:31.5 | Things like Halon Wheels or Sons of Anarchy, all these TV shows, Mad Men, they're all TVMA. |
0:37.2 | And the question is like, how come, how come, like the best shows, the best written, the |
0:41.7 | best directed shows, the most intriguing shows are from a true audience. |
0:46.2 | And I think it's because of this. |
0:47.8 | I think it's because in every one of those shows what they do is they try to get to something |
0:53.1 | deeper. |
0:54.1 | So, Mad Men or the sopranos, those are shows about a successful person who seems to have |
1:01.0 | the ideal life, their descent into like ruin. |
1:03.6 | Breaking bad, same kind of thing, like what would it be like, another descent as show |
1:07.4 | of a descent of a good person, Walter White, to become the villain. |
1:11.6 | It's just one of these intriguing kind of concepts. |
1:13.6 | You have things like a game, again, game of thrones as an example of this kind of other |
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