Often, these portrayals stray far from real life and enjoy an undercurrent of hypocrisy (the respectable church-goers are all sleeping with each other), partly to add color, but mostly because the Midwest is just slightly less alien than Mars to most of the folks who write TV.
Poorer and less educated than their coastal brethren, and somewhat more likely to be conservative.
Frequent forays into the Quirky Town and the Town with a Dark Secret. If not California, then the Northeast is readily available. Most people are college educated, middle-class, and at least slightly liberal.
Suburbia game sucks tv#
Suburbia in TV has three distinct flavors: The fact that we have an entire trope about this, Stepford Suburbia, speaks volumes about the way many Americans view the suburban lifestyle. By the nineties, the idea of satirizing suburbia was so ingrained in American culture that it was itself satirized. In the middle of the 20th century, the American intelligentsia were obsessed with attacking the actual and perceived shortcomings of suburbia. A deep well of satire and (often not very affectionate) parody, especially from disaffected youth.
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