‘I didn’t sleep for days’: readers on the TV shows that went way too far
From fish and chip shop-induced trauma to programmes packed with relentless death and gore, here are the television moments that had you reaching for the remote.
Readers' comments refer to Dexter (‘Just too horrifying’, young son sitting in a pool of his mother’s blood), Spooks (dunked into the deep fryer), The Walking Dead (‘I struggled with nausea’), Black Mirror (‘Horribly off-putting’; Any time a child is killed in a TV show I find it horribly off-putting), Game of Thrones (sexual assault as a plot device; why the showrunners decided to portray such extreme violence?), Shōgun (mother is persuaded to hand over her baby to be administratively murdered; man being boiled alive), Outlander (‘Too far with the sheer number of sexual assault scenes’), Squid Game (massive amounts of pointless death seemed to be almost glorified).
My refusal to keep a television anywhere in the house strikes me as entirely justified. I'm no Mary Whitehouse but anyone having flashbacks to nauseating garbage like this deserves all the suffering they endure.
https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radi ... ay-too-far
Television violence and gore
Television violence and gore
A notable story in today's Guardian:
Nullius in verba ... ☎||||||||||| ... To Fate I sue, of other means bereft, the only refuge for the wretched left.
When flower power came along I stood for Human Rights, marched around for peace and freedom, had some nooky every night - we took it serious.
Who has a spare two minutes to play in this month's FG Trivia game! ... My other OS is Slackware.
When flower power came along I stood for Human Rights, marched around for peace and freedom, had some nooky every night - we took it serious.
Who has a spare two minutes to play in this month's FG Trivia game! ... My other OS is Slackware.