you know, dynasty. and it all just ended up being a wonderful picture of fun and debauchery. greed was encouraged in the 80s. there was a sense of conspicuous consumption as being okay and those shows kind of exploited that. prime time families like the caringtons who live here in luxury on the dynasty sound stage are not the only rich folk on tv. in the last five years, more than half of all-new shows have featured the wealthy. ten years ago, that figure was zero. there was an accident. your father s dead. a wine family. there s lorenzo llamas and there s ronald reagan s first wife is on that show. emma is pregnant. i know a doctor who can take care of it right away. that will never happen. all of those shows were, oh, my god, what s next? what s going to happen with that? he can t get away with that. and then, you d tune in, it was
the carringtons, and it was a picture of fun. greed was encouraged in the 80s, and there was a assumption of it being okay and those shows exploited that. primetime families like the caringtons are not the only rich folk on tv, and more than half of the show features the wealthy, and ten years ago that figure was zero. it was an accident. your father was dead. falcon crest was a lion family. emma is pregnant. i know a doctor that can take care of it right away. that will never happen. all of those shows were, oh, my god, what is next? what is going to happen with that? he can t get away with that, and you tune in and it was a point in television. what will become of the