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In addition to the guilty pleasure "reality TV", I enjoy the ubiquitous crime drama / forensic shows. Of course, the ever popular pseudo psychic elements are fun, too. Sadly, the gore level of all of these shows has grown drastically over time. It seems that producers believe all imaginable variations of post mortem mutilation, lovingly crafted by serial killer wannabe sfx teams, will make the show that much more compelling. It doesn't.
As a child I never missed an episode of Quincy. Even though the subject matter was mature, I was pretty worldly elementary schooler. My parents trusted me to choose my poison, TV was pretty safe. ( Of course, I was probably scarred for life by Halloween at the age of nine, HBO was eeevil. )
Now, there are no safe shows. I don't mean story safe, you can tell me all the gory details you like. But I don't really need to see it. My brain is far more scary than latex and gelatin voyeurism, so is it really isn't necessary. Like too many people, I've become desensitized to the evocative images of violence and it's aftermath.
For myself, bring it on, those taste buds burnt out long ago. However, for those people who still have taste, does every damn show have to make the tongue curl? You see, I can't watch those shows, regardless of story. I share TV with people who still, and always will, find such images distasteful. And when they cringe, I cringe.
Tonight, left to myself, I watched The Insider. I didn't recognize the cookie cutter blonde, but Peter Coyote is always fun to watch. One of the actors from Firefly (Adam Baldwin) also seems to have found work. I wasn't wowed, it's obviously an attempt to play off the popularity of The Medium, but more subtlety, like Profiler. Actually, it's pretty much exactly like Profiler. Anyway, excessive gore has already ruled it as a watchable show, even if I expected it to have any lasting power.
As a child I never missed an episode of Quincy. Even though the subject matter was mature, I was pretty worldly elementary schooler. My parents trusted me to choose my poison, TV was pretty safe. ( Of course, I was probably scarred for life by Halloween at the age of nine, HBO was eeevil. )
Now, there are no safe shows. I don't mean story safe, you can tell me all the gory details you like. But I don't really need to see it. My brain is far more scary than latex and gelatin voyeurism, so is it really isn't necessary. Like too many people, I've become desensitized to the evocative images of violence and it's aftermath.
For myself, bring it on, those taste buds burnt out long ago. However, for those people who still have taste, does every damn show have to make the tongue curl? You see, I can't watch those shows, regardless of story. I share TV with people who still, and always will, find such images distasteful. And when they cringe, I cringe.
Tonight, left to myself, I watched The Insider. I didn't recognize the cookie cutter blonde, but Peter Coyote is always fun to watch. One of the actors from Firefly (Adam Baldwin) also seems to have found work. I wasn't wowed, it's obviously an attempt to play off the popularity of The Medium, but more subtlety, like Profiler. Actually, it's pretty much exactly like Profiler. Anyway, excessive gore has already ruled it as a watchable show, even if I expected it to have any lasting power.