American television seems to reflect a value system that is more or less alien to mine. For example, there are always token blacks on American TV, and they're never inner-city blacks - when some racist character (who is invariably a white trailer trash southerner with a twangy accent) confronts a black guy about being a dumb nigger, the guy invariably says something like 'well actually I'm an endocrinologist at John's Hopkins' or something to that effect. Then again, you'll never see main characters that are black in a show designed for a white audience (or at least not in the sci-fi crap that I watch). You quite often see men marry women with children, like in Dexter. I'd really have to be desperate to marry a woman with two children - not only desperate but financially capable of supporting a family of four. If you have that kind of cash, you can probably land yourself an Asian or Latin American university student unless you're hideous, and people on television in America never are hideous, are they? (maybe some of the black ones are - I can't really tell with black people) You never see gays that are total perverts - they're either campy or what the Presbyterian Church likes to think gays are like - nice, well dressed fellows that are cheerful, good neighbors who duck into their bedrooms with their equally charming friends, out of sight, to have man-on-man anal sex. They never portray guys that are into 15-17 year old girls that way, and I'm sure they're far more common than gays. I've been watching Falling Skies - it's exactly like Walking Dead except with aliens instead of zombies.