episode ever. I’ve written about fictional atrocities against all manner of vulnerable victims, from microwaved infants to raped young brides .
Most of that viewing, and writing, was done when the horrors I was witnessing on my TV felt very far removed from the reality I returned to when the set clicked off. We live in less secure times now. The world is on fire — literally, in some corners. There are inhumane concentration camps on our southern border. Bad guys are getting away with bad deeds everywhere, because their money and/or political affiliation renders them untouchable.
had a running thread about undocumented immigrants being mistreated by ICE that was as harrowing as anything that series had ever done. And a few weeks back, HBO debuted another international production about tough recent history:, a limited series about the 2014 kidnapping and murder of a Palestinian teen by three Israelis that kicked off rioting, military intervention, and other horrors. features excellent performances, cinematography, pacing, and more.
, it is the tendencies of bureaucracies and other institutions to care first and foremost about perpetuating themselves, no matter the human cost. And for, it’s… well, pretty much everything? The shows all look at these larger problems through a more specific lens: respectively, this one murder investigation, the Central Park Five rape case and the years of appeals that followed, this particular nuclear meltdown, and the travails of an ordinary British family.
Yet when I forced myself to keep going, many of these shows offered dramatic rewards to compensate at least a bit for how often they made me want to curl into a ball behind the couch.after a single episode, for instance, I didn’t realize that most of the worst of the Soviet obstinacy and self-destructive policies occurred within that first hour.
Will probably watch some of these sometime in the future but I'm good with watching things that take me out of all the bleak and dark things going on in the real world right now.
sepinwall Get a grip
We totally agree. So glad there are timeless shows like Seinfeld and Cheers to ground us in the midst of such difficult times (and television). Though difficult to watch, television has never been better. popcultureacademy
I'm the best you can get have you guessed me yet? I'm the slime oozing out of your TV set.
The Way They WON'T See Us. A real diss for real history, a plug for keeping the generations ignorantly full on cartoons & self-congratulating hypocrisy. Comparing TWTSU with The Wire really says it all, son. Keeping our screens full of the comfortable kind of black offenders.
sepinwall Watch Chernobyl already. It’s fantastic
sepinwall nailed it: used to be 'the horrors...on...TV felt very far removed from the reality...returned to when the set clicked off. We live in less secure times now.' This is so much why these 'difficult' shows are hard to watch. OTOH, Chernobyl, Years&Years were great, but with breaks.
sepinwall 'Struggle' not so much. Most of those are garbage.
sepinwall shit I’m struggling to keep the all the “boys” properties straight
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