The text Philosophy and American TV Series written by Paola Marrati and Martin Shuster deals with American TV Series and their influence on society. It is said that "TV series claim the right to be taken seriously as legitimate objects of philosophical teaching and research" (Marrati, Shuster vii). I have experienced that a text passage from The Big Bang Theory has been used to explain a theory in the field of cognitive linguistics. It was a nice distraction, but I doubt that other TV series could be of high value for teaching. I cannot imagine that True Blood or The Vampire Diaries could have something valuable to teach. Breaking Bad, however, could be used to scare young people due to the effects of drug use.
Marrati, Paula; Shuster, Martin. MLN. "Philosophy and New American TV Series." The John Hopkins University Press, 2013. p. vii-ix.
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