Compare And Contrast Desperate Housewives And Breaking Bad Shows

Television changes with the mood of the people watching it. There was a time in America where the American Dream and society was symbolized by Leave it to Beaver. In that show you had a mother, a father, and two sons living a very simple, and typical life of that time period. The show tried to teach lessons and every episode had lessons learned. But, fast forward another half century and Leave it to Beaver has been taken over by The Desperate Housewives and Breaking Bad. The TV shows cannot be any more different. Desperate Housewives has an all-female cast that showed the typical problems for women living in the suburbs. Breaking Bad shows the dark side of society and how many people will do anything to sustain their family even if it’s not
To put that era into perspective, the United States just finished World War II and became the world’s strongest military power. Its economy was at an all-time high which brought vast amounts of prosperity for many Americans. It was a time period called “Keeping up with the Johnsons” were one family would try to keep up materially with other families on the street. If ones neighbor bought a new refrigerator or a new car you would then want to buy the same item. And the 1950s offered that opportunity to so Americans (History.com). The booming prosperity of the 1950s helped to create a widespread sense of stability, contentment and consensus in the United States. One can see people flocking to the suburbs buying houses that are exactly the same. New towns emerged filled with white families. The highway system will be built with enables people to buy new cars and live further away from their jobs. This lifestyle in embodied by the show Leave it to
This show was a comedy-drama that first aired in 2001 and lasted until 2012. The main characters in this show were all females and the show played to the problems that they had. Even though all these females had husbands or boyfriends the men were the second act to the women. These women had all different personalities and talents but they all share one thing in common is that they have more active roles compared to the males on the show. The themes of the show revolve around many different ideas but mainly: love, hatred, and