RE: Stranger Things!
October 29, 2017 at 12:44 pm
(This post was last modified: October 29, 2017 at 12:45 pm by Aroura.)
Let me specify.
I actually think 13 reasons why is not just a bad show, but should not even be on TV.
It idealizes suicide. It makes suicide an accomplishment, puts this ugly positive spin on it. It also normalizes suicide as a normal outcome or option for things that are sadly very common, though horrible, in a teenage life. Romanticising suicide is vulgar to the extreme.
Then, the show is aimed at that age group, those most vulnerable to suicide. Teens.
Criminal, imo.
Possible, but I don't recall actually mentioning my disgust with it to anyone except my husband. I have a terrible memory though, and could be wrong!
I actually think 13 reasons why is not just a bad show, but should not even be on TV.
It idealizes suicide. It makes suicide an accomplishment, puts this ugly positive spin on it. It also normalizes suicide as a normal outcome or option for things that are sadly very common, though horrible, in a teenage life. Romanticising suicide is vulgar to the extreme.
Then, the show is aimed at that age group, those most vulnerable to suicide. Teens.
Criminal, imo.
(October 29, 2017 at 12:37 pm)Lutrinae Wrote:(October 29, 2017 at 12:32 pm)Aroura Wrote: I tried to watch that show. 3 episodes in it just felt like some revenge porn, to me anyway. Suicidal people don't methodically record 28 hours of audio recordings, with humor. Couldn't stomach it. Can't figure out what other people see in it.
I was going to watch it, but I think it was you who informed me of why it was not a good show.
Possible, but I don't recall actually mentioning my disgust with it to anyone except my husband. I have a terrible memory though, and could be wrong!
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― Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
