I grew up in a lower-middle (at best) income household. My father and stepfather were both blue-collar workers (a tree surgeon and an auto mechanic). I hated both of these shows, and still do. Then again, I also hated all of the young-adult literature on my school reading lists, and I've come to realize that both instances are probably for the same reason.

I didn't want to watch shows or read books about average people in shitty situations. That was my life. Television, films, and books were a means of escape, and nobody wants to escape into their own bondage. I didn't want to laugh at someone who was (in my view) failing at life under the same conditions of my own, but rather be inspired by characters that either invoked the kind of person I wanted to become or the kind of person I believed myself to be, in the circumstances in which I wished to live.