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Originally Posted by PRB
In this vein...I watched the opener of "Suits" last nite. A new lawyer TV series. I was amazed at the total lack of any moral attitude. The star is a kid who took other kids collage tests for them for cash, and met the Lawyer at the firm when a dope sale he was executing went wrong.
He then goes to Harvard to learn the campus because his new lawyer boss says he has to sell the kid as a Harvard grad....lies, deception and basically a do anything to get ahead.
All of this in an atmosphere of 'well it works and it's cool' . Couldn't handle the blatant lack of any honor whatsoever....great teaching tool for kids.
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I saw the rebroadcast of the pilot episode last night. I found the characters and story compelling.
My own take is that the show is about a guy learning that operating with a badly damaged moral compass as a youth has long reaching consequences when one enters adulthood. He seems to possess already the tragic knowledge that his past is inescapable. (And by tragic, I mean in the classical sense, not the way the word is used today.)
In many ways, the show's basic premise is fitting metaphor for America in the late twentieth/early twenty first century.
More generally, notwithstanding the poison of most reality shows--I am of the view that we're in a golden age of television.
YMMV.