Easy

For this week I watched the first episode of Easy, unfortunately it wasn’t that easy to watch, in fact some of it actually made me uncomfortable. The first episode is about a middle age couple with two kids that are having issues within their sex life. Throughout the episode you get a very graphic inside look on how their lives were. After doing some research I discovered that all 8 of the episodes in this season are about a different relationship and focus on a different aspect of the relationship. Even though they are different I personally could not go back and watch any more. This would be a great show for an older couple that was for a middle age person whom could relate a lot but for me it was almost disturbing to watch this episode especially the sex scene. But my question is why I am bothered by watching this. .. Is this society affecting my opinions?

Most sex scenes in movies are thought of as raunchy and sexy, normally you would think of this happening between two younger people. So why when we see a couple that does not fit does it bother us? In my opinion younger people relate better to younger people having sex along with the fact that this is what is shown to us making us much more familiar to this scene rather than to older people. Along with the fact that sometimes when we see a couple older than us we associate that with our parents or grandparents which in return makes us feel uncomfortable about the content. This then brings up another question; do older people feel uncomfortable when seeing the younger generation in this manner? They could relate someone younger to their kids or they could put it in a different point of view and think about it as those being the “golden days”. There’s a lot of different ways to look at it and a lot of different factors that come into play when talking about a subject like this but like many other things media plays a role.  Like I talked about earlier with younger people being depicted as more sexualized we become comfortable with this and often you even forget that older people have sex too and that there is no difference between the two.

Most of this all basically came to is that everybody has a different opinion and many different factors that go into opinions in a show. I may not have really liked this show but I also can tell you that someone out there likes it or maybe even can relate to it. This is overall the most important thing to keep in mind and to remember that just because someone likes something you don’t they may have been exposed to other things in their life that change their opinion. And in the end and no matter if it’s right or wrong society will always affect us but that just makes us a little more unique.