What does your favourite TV series say about you?
updated the 7 October 2015 à 00:03
What we like to see on our television screen reminds us of our reflection in real life. Not literally of course. Here’s how your favourite TV series might be revealing your personality…
It was Manuel Valls who, in the last weeks of the presidential campaign, called his press officer “CJ” – the nickname of president Bartlet in The West Wing, as if the interior minister, too, lived in that fantasy world behind the television screen. Or even Jean-Michel Apathy, columnist of Canal+ in France, who confides that he watches The Sopranos on replay, to take a break from the great political vultures by watching those from the mafia. Or that friend who still remembers, ten years later, she discovered her pregnancy right after the episode of Sex and the City where Miranda faces her maternal future, be it a funny coincidence or fate. Series tend to become a not-so-distorted mirror of our reality, instead deepening it and becoming an escape in which we find, more than lose, ourselves. They are the topic of conversations at the coffee machine, the subject of dissertations and studies, the topic of editors and academics, sounding out theories on CSI or Desperate Housewives with the same seriousness as the Treaty of Versailles. They are trendy and popular. What with the recent development to technology and media in Asia, TV viewership and popularity of serials has grown along with it, almost all those series American. The Mentalist has a regular 9.5 million following, just ahead of Dr. House, with a comfortable 8 million, and NCIS, with 7.2 million. In large stores, where they were once scant, there are now shelves and shelves devoted solely to DVD series, equalling to or exceeding the number of shelves of movies. This is because in Hollywood, talent has also migrated from the large to the small screen. Spielberg, Scorsese and actor Mark Wahlberg, among others, are engaged in the production of television series, the new Eldorado. The Sopranos have already acquired a classic status comparable to The Godfather. If that does not prove that we will live in serial mode for a long time, we don’t know what will. Discover more of our report on “Our fave series that say a couple of things about us” Are you one of the Desperate Housewives? You are more into the old America of Mad Men? Like Cold Case for its human interest stories? Are you crushing on the sexy Mentalist? Do you prefer medical mysteries with Dr. House? Are you murderous like Dexter? Are you one of the NCIS? Like the danger of CSI? Yves Rossel
