What the Americans want to see is life in their drama. Life of all sorts: hard lives, easy lives, or lives which, like most of ours, are a mixture of the two.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
American life is based on a reassurance that we like one another but won't violate one another's privacies. This makes it a land of small talk.
Everyone needs some kind of compelling drama in their life, basically.
You know Americans are obsessed with life and death and rebirth, that's the American Cycle. You know, awakening, tragic, horrible death and then Phoenix rising from the ashes. That's the American story, again and again.
British audiences tend to want to see their own lives reflected on TV, whereas American audiences are quite aspirational and enjoy high-concept shows that show them lives that are perhaps slightly more exciting than they aspire to.
One would like to say in the aftermath of the 2008 election that everyone lived happily ever after. But the American drama, especially when it involves race, is always more complicated than that.
In Europe life is histrionic and dramatized, and in America, except when it is trying to be European, it is direct and sincere.
What is drama but life with the dull bits cut out.
Americans are hard working, innovative, proud people who want bad government policies and high taxes to get out of the way so they can take care of their families and pursue their dreams.
Life is very important to Americans.
In Britain you're more used to challenging drama. In America, TV is just boring, and numbing, and bloody terrible.