Telly!

The revolution that television meant is totally undeniable.  As all in life, the television brought many good things as well as bad ones. On one hand the TV became very quickly the most important mass media of all, transmitting messages and news on a much faster way than before and bringing the family and neighbours together –or that is what I have been told by my mom- . Nevertheless, nowadays the TV (and also computers and videogames) keep the children inside the house, they don’t go to play outside.  That I found it very shocking ‘cause I spent a big part of my childhood playing in the mud with friends and not as much  enclosed with a box.

At present I don’t watch that big deal of telly either, usually to get me some company while eating lunch. In fact, if I watch it, I mostly tune the cable TV, ‘cause I like to watch series and not so much of soap operas and reallitys shows. The Chilean television is plagued with the last two. About our national telly I find that is mostly show gosip programs –I know that also there is news, but I prefer to read it online- and not much of cultural programme. I thing that programs like “Maravillozoo” and “31 minutos” should come back.

Early I wrote that I like watching tv series, but I must confess that I do not watch it on the tv, but online. This is because most of the series I like are foreign, mainly UK and USA. Actually I do watch a lot of series, all from very different genre, and it would be kind of difficult to make a top 5 list, so I’m just going to write what have been my favourites:

 Doctor Who, 31 minutos, Friends, Doctor House, Sherlock, Game of Thrones, Criminal Minds, New Girl, North and South, Castle, The big bang Theory, Once Upon a Time, True Blood, Downtown Abbey, Community…

I thing that with this list should be enough  to schedule a lazy weekend at home :)

pd: "Telly" is the informal way the British call the TV... there is a hole Doctor Who episode about it ...nerd fact of the day