Why are so Many TV Characters such Terrible People?

It is often seen on TV shows that characters just aren’t nice people. They are quite terrible. This happens a lot in TV shows. I have no idea why this is. It can happen on shows that are good, but normally only happens on shows that are bad.

It was the show Mom that had characters that were just so horrible and had no one to root for that I just couldn’t stay with the show beyond its first episode. The only positive that I could think of was that Anna Farris was cute. That was it. There was nothing else about the show that I liked as it was about a bunch of horrible people doing horrible things with no one to root for.

This show is hardly the only show that has horrible characters in it. That is such a common problem in shows. Training Day was awful like that as well, even if there was a potential good person on it. And it would be hard to go through all of the shows that just don’t have good people to root for.

Sometimes, this isn’t actually that much of a problem. You wouldn’t think that such a thing would be the case, but it would all depend on the situations going on in the show. Shades of Blue had terrible people on it, but it more than made up for it with intriguing plots and enough going on with it that could keep you interested beyond the people that are bad. There was enough in there that wanted you to see what would happen and keep you invested in everything on the show.

Often, though, it is just a sign of bad television. There are too many issues with a show based on a whole bunch of people that are just terrible in many different ways. Why would we watch a show that has terrible people on it all the time? It doesn’t make sense.

Why is this the case? I have no idea. I would think that if they were going to show people evolving from this situation into better people, that would be something that we’d like to see. But I don’t see this as something that often happens most of the time. It is just a horrible problem that shouldn’t happen, yet does, over and over again. And we need better TV than this.