I’m going to start off by saying the fact that we are talking about television two week in a row goes to show how important tv is to us and how influential it is in our lives. It really is one of the things that shapes what normal is in our world today and how people should act in different situations. Even though everyone knows tv is fake they still base their life off the fiction and dramatized stories they see on tv today, it really does help shape social norms. Tv is also very relatable to real life situations.

In saying that this week’s viewing from BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER the episode Hush, it was about a town of people losing their vices and not being able to talk. Well they were worrying about their loss of voice, bad guys killing members of their community. This show really reminded me of what we went through with the Coronavirus this year. There were many things that made me think of our resent pandemic, a lot of it was the way everyone reacted to the loss of their voices, they all freaked out and had no idea what to do. This was much like when we started to see cases of COVID in America, everyone wanted answers and wanted them now. another similarity is the reaction once the situation set in, everyone was running around getting supplies there was restraints closing all over and chaos in the streets. This was very similar to the reaction when the shelter in place order was mandated in the beginning of the Covid outbreak. Then after all the chaos and freaking out you start to see people start to adapid to the situation like wearing white bored around their neck to be able to communicate through writing. This reminded me of how we started to adapted to the quarantine by using things like Zoom and Microsoft teams to conduct meetings and even celebrate special events. You also saw in the episode Hush the news media trying to make sense of the situation by trying to find something to blame the loss of voices. This was also seen in the resent pandemic; the media was there the whole time trying to blame someone or something. Even though this story in this show wasn’t real it definitely hit home for me because of the close similarities to the COVID Pandemic. It goes to show you how resilient humans are and how we need to come together in a time of need much like now.

So what do you think is there a similarity there or am I crazy?