There is this new TV show that has come out recently on ABC called” Suburgatory”. It’s about a young girl and her father that move from the city to the suburbs.
What I find interesting about this show is how it displays the suburbs. I’ve watched the trailer for this show so many times, and it’s making the suburbs come across as where all the rich people live. The people that live there also get nose jobs and other kinds of plastic surgery. They are all also snobby. This show reminds me a bit of Desperate Housewives, and showing that kind of Suburbia.
What I also found interesting too was how class is being displayed in this show. It is also showing that everyone who lives in suburbia is rich and part of a higher class. I grew up in the suburbs, and it is a very diverse community. It’s not like how it is displayed in this show, and other TV shows. Heres the trailer for the show:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ScPgXgJXjrI&feature=related
So the suburbs are about class - rich people live there, they spend money ostentatiously, do they have power? social and cultural capital? Are they portraying this class as all white?
ReplyDeleteYou're right that the composition of the suburbs has changed a great deal in the past twenty years and it is no longer homogenous