Entertaiment is important to a family because it gives them something that they can enjoy together. People are so busy chasing a job and trying to make money that it is easy for life to become dull, so having something entertaining helps them grow closer as a family. It also stimulates the brain to release seratonin, dopamine and other chemicals. Entertainment often hits on themes that the human brain was shaped to react deeply to, such as social backstabbing and murders.

According to Oliver and Barstsch (2010), Entertainment can be defined as an activity understood objectively, which includes communication between text and audience from an external stimulus, offers pleasure, requires audience passivity and occurs in a passive form.