Looking for shows to watch on Netflix and Amazon Prime, I'm reminded of Hania's experience clothes shopping when she first came to the States. The sheer quantity was dazzling at first until she saw that so much of what was on offer was the same. The TV equivalent is the glut of shows about detectives and crime. Some of these are very good - we're enjoying the Polish series The Mire, which, in a slight twist, is about journalists and crime - but do we really need so many? There is a depressing dearth of shows about everyday people in familiar situations - school, work, neighborhood, family - that aren't ridiculously exaggerated. Life may still imitate art at times, but when did art stop imitating life?
