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Jane The Virgin Analysis
One of The CW’s most popular romance comedies, Jane the Virgin has swept viewers of their feet in a matter of the first few shows. However, did the viewers realize how the show is blindly overlooking and undermining potential issues in society? Jane the Virgin is a comedic amusement to many individuals. The show has taken a religious concept of a virgin getting pregnant, and turned it into the main plot of their show. The fact that she is a virgin and pregnant is hilarious, but how she got pregnant is quiet serious, realistically. Some parts of the show illustrate serious concerns, but are portrayed in such a way that the viewers just laugh it off their shoulders and moves on. These scenes make the views, including myself, giggle. This is because, in the show humor is more obviously portrayed than the serious issues within the story of the show. I personally am attracted to this television series because of how funny and ironic the show is. However, if you do look close enough, there are serious issues taking place behind the comedy and romance.
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For this reason, viewers over look the fact that this could actually happen to someone or themselves. Even though, Jane the Virgin creates such absurd circumstances, the show is appealing to an array of individual because of how casual and unreal the life of the characters are. Since the show is for entertainment purposes, humor is a compelling factor luring viewers to watch the show. Even though humor is overpowering certain issues, the show was still presenting them to the audience. However, realistically humor might have been taken too far and undermined the gravity of the certain events. Initially, humor was dominating and overpowering several scenes in Jane the virgin and might have been sending out the wrong message to influential young

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