I dunno ... i don't think you can tell much about people from watching tv. You would come away with the wrong idea because TV is a fiction ... for the most part. Even reality tv is staged and carefully edited to make it more interesting.

Real life is pretty mundane for the most part. Birth, school, work, death. People come home from a hard day's work and put on the TV for a few hours for a little bit of entertainment as an escape from their ordinary lives.

They get up the next morning and do it all over again. Day after day. Week after week. Month after month. Year after year.

Fifty years pass. They look back and say to themselves : Where did the time go ?

A relative few who fully embraced the real world ...and lived life to the fullest ... look back and say to themselves : It's been one helluva ride.