Dinner or Desperate Housewives

"Us and Them" was a very interesting essay. It's so funny that the narrator thinks that someone without television is weird and the outcast of the town, when he and his family are the "new guys" (the typical outcasts in a city). The Tomkeys are definitely strange, and I know that I would not make it without my television to watch the shows that I've become addicted to, but it's interesting to see that having a television and watching all the prime time shows is what is considered normal these days. The Tomkeys had lived in the North Carolina town much longer than the narrator's family, yet they might as well live on the other side of the world just because they don't have a television and they value spending time with each other talking (which is what families should do more of). The essay really makes me think about how big of an impact television has on people's lives and, as corny as it sounds, kind of makes me want to go back in time to when did spend time with their families and just enjoy being with people without having to watch television all the time.