In the 2009 article “Life According to Television” in Common Culture: In reading and writing about American popular culture, Harry Water describes that media 'today are easy to distort the world and harm society as a whole. First, he points out that television has more influence than other forms of entertainment media among audiences, which affects social attitudes and creates cultural biases. Secondly, he refers to Gerbner's study which draws on specific experiments and surveys and explains that television changes the audience's point of view through multiple factors such as gender, age, race , work, health and crime, or other aspects of society. For example, Water says that television shows leave us with negative impressions of older people as stupid, stubborn, sexually inactive and eccentric. Water also claims that crime is about ten times more common than in real life. Videos of violence always have a negative influence on society, especially on the younger generation. Water further points out that young people easily change their attitudes when choosing a job because the television show greatly overestimated the proportion of Americans employed as doctors, lawyers, athletes and artists. Overall, the article mainly talks about the TV show which brings societal misunderstanding and bad influence on the viewer. Yet we must ask ourselves: do television shows only have a negative influence on the viewer? Do the media really change our minds? Can a TV show educate the younger generation? The TV show, Prison Break (season 1), is one of the most popular crime shows. It contains a lot of violence, drugs, immoral behavior, cheating as Water mentions in his article. The story is about the main character Michael Scofield, whose brother has been commissioned to build a small model of the Taj Mahal, and gives him a surprise. Water believes that depictions of older people convey negative impressions; In general, they are considered silly, stubborn, sexually inactive and eccentric. The manager is almost 70 years old, but he seems very energetic and passionate. The show changed the stereotype of elderly people and the public's attitude towards elderly people. I think the caretaker can be a role model for the elderly audience, which can bring a little change in their lives. Don't encourage them to give up something because of their old age. Some things will never disappear with time, like love, passion for work, for a better life for him. In conclusion, the TV show is not as terrible as we imagined. It's a kind of double-edged sword that has both good and bad sides. It can give us a bad influence and give us a lot to learn..