When Good Goes Evil

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These days good may be portrayed as being intrinsically weaker than the “unbalancing” forces of Evil, implying that maintaining the balance is the best outcome we can even hope for. It’s apparent it is what we are all thinking at this moment. Hollywood is actually reflecting what our concerns are and what are actions have become. At this time in our history when unemployment rates are soaring, houses are being foreclosed and futures seem bleak, our entertainment points towards the more extremes in human beings.  Often the glamorization of evil  comes in glossy packaging.

In many of these shows only the  “Good Guys” seem to care about actually respecting the balance, while Evil almost never holds back. However, the penalty for this is usually the  permission for the hero to finally kill the villain. Occasionally, it’s reversed with a “Good guy”  being a well intentioned extremist and a “Bad Guy” an anti villain or villain protagonist, invoking Light.  The irony though is that “good” guys who don’t do good things aren’t good any more, but rather villains with good publicity.

A few shows  prove this theory perfectly. In TNT’s drama, “Saving Grace,” Grace Hanadarko is a hard-talking, fast-living police officer who unexpectedly meets her last-chance angel, the wise-cracking Earl after a night of heavy drinking, when she accidentally kills a man while driving–and then begs for help from God to change her life. Earl offers a chance at redemption. Grace often resorts to underhanded actions to get a good solution.

The television show  ”Eastwick” is the third  try at the John Updike novel to make its way to the small screen since the big screen version with Jack Nicholson. “Eastwick” gives it another go, with the witches “empowered” by their secret desires their diabolical new boyfriend. True Blood is about vampires going public because they need to be respected as a class of people . “Supernatural” is about brothers fighting and struggling with good versus evil. In a twist of fate one brother even ends up selling his good to become evil to save the world.

These shows seem to point to our every day blurring of what living in the real world with problems invokes. Just how are we making our choices to do good? Are we even really trying to walk on straight and narrow or just appearing to do so. Has the stress changed our view on the need to get ahead, get what you want and admit “that it’s really not as awful as you think”? That’s what these shows really hit upon. They bring home the fact that we often give in to our circumstances for choosing wrong and we say its for the better good.

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