Cable television

I watched cable television the other day for the first time in a very long time. The phrase ‘cable television’ is funny to me; it’s old, almost historic. Who says, ‘Let’s watch cable television’ or even ‘Let’s watch cable’? Are people still watching TV daily for hours? I’m sure they are, and I can’t help but cringe at the commercials for credit cards, hair regrowth treatments, and life insurance thrown at us every 10-15 minutes. We changed the channels and found ourselves sucked into ‘Trading Places,’ a comedy movie made in the early 1980s with Eddie Murphy and Jamie Lee Curtis. I recommend it. But the advertisements—the god-awful marketing—was heartbreaking. Instead of watching it on television it could be on Netflix or some other form of continuous forms of quick entertainment. Rarely do we find thoughtfully made films with meaningful acting. Nowadays, movies are pumped out as if they were on an assembly line: quick, cheap forms of entertainment.