One of the things I love about entertainment is that much of it offers evidence about how humans behave in a wide variety of scenarios. This has gotten truer over time, at least within Anglophone media, with its trend towards realism and away from archetypes and morality plays. Yes, it’s not the best possible or most reliable evidence about how real humans behave in real situations and it’s a meme around here that you should be careful not to generalize from fictional evidence, but I also think it’s better than nothing (I don’t think reality TV is especially less fictional than other forms of entertainment with regards to how human behave, given its heavy use of editing and loose scripting to punch up situations for entertainment value).
One of the things I love about entertainment is that much of it offers evidence about how humans behave in a wide variety of scenarios. This has gotten truer over time, at least within Anglophone media, with its trend towards realism and away from archetypes and morality plays. Yes, it’s not the best possible or most reliable evidence about how real humans behave in real situations and it’s a meme around here that you should be careful not to generalize from fictional evidence, but I also think it’s better than nothing (I don’t think reality TV is especially less fictional than other forms of entertainment with regards to how human behave, given its heavy use of editing and loose scripting to punch up situations for entertainment value).
Nothing is a low bar though. :)