I fucking hate television. I'm sitting through an episode of CSI, or something. Maybe Law and Order. Like it fucking matters which.
This is the most disgusting show I've ever seen, both in a physical and a literary sense. They show every sick, gorey, absolutely needless detail they can show when there's a dead body, or a raped girl, or whatever. I think I counted seven dead bodies in one episode, and each one of them got a full 3-4 second pan, complete with rotting skin and maggots. The show even has details like "the sperm in her vagina wasn't from the rape; it was from the quickie she had in the elevator earlier that night." Great.
The writing is awful. Some homeless girl kills a rich teenager with the line, "those rocks would have fed our family for months." There's horrible analogies and metaphors all over the place. In one episode this murderer is compared to a father, a farmer, a shepherd, a teacher, and a lion. Over and over again. And each time the metaphor is fucking awful. It gets worse though. That same shitty character uses a "smiley chain" to kill people and then gouges their eyes out and cuts their cheeks from ear to ear so it looks like they're smiling. So they're shitty AND they blatantly copy from a much better, deeper character. And they can't even copy well. Then the guy goes to jail, and he looks at the sexy but strong redheaded D.A. and says, "I hate your guts." Wow, nice. That took a whole day in the writer's room to come up with, right?
The whole thing is just an exercise in horrible, disgusting, unimaginative excess, and the awful thing is that people eat it up. There's no creativity, no compelling characters, no humanity, no drama. They just steamroll through dead bodies, rapes, chase scenes, cool crime scene investigation scenes, etc. until the thing comes to a nice, tidy, slick ending that they think is an awesome curveball or a gripping cliffhanger, but none of it is in the least bit intriguing. I fucking hate it.
Ugh.
This is the most disgusting show I've ever seen, both in a physical and a literary sense. They show every sick, gorey, absolutely needless detail they can show when there's a dead body, or a raped girl, or whatever. I think I counted seven dead bodies in one episode, and each one of them got a full 3-4 second pan, complete with rotting skin and maggots. The show even has details like "the sperm in her vagina wasn't from the rape; it was from the quickie she had in the elevator earlier that night." Great.
The writing is awful. Some homeless girl kills a rich teenager with the line, "those rocks would have fed our family for months." There's horrible analogies and metaphors all over the place. In one episode this murderer is compared to a father, a farmer, a shepherd, a teacher, and a lion. Over and over again. And each time the metaphor is fucking awful. It gets worse though. That same shitty character uses a "smiley chain" to kill people and then gouges their eyes out and cuts their cheeks from ear to ear so it looks like they're smiling. So they're shitty AND they blatantly copy from a much better, deeper character. And they can't even copy well. Then the guy goes to jail, and he looks at the sexy but strong redheaded D.A. and says, "I hate your guts." Wow, nice. That took a whole day in the writer's room to come up with, right?
The whole thing is just an exercise in horrible, disgusting, unimaginative excess, and the awful thing is that people eat it up. There's no creativity, no compelling characters, no humanity, no drama. They just steamroll through dead bodies, rapes, chase scenes, cool crime scene investigation scenes, etc. until the thing comes to a nice, tidy, slick ending that they think is an awesome curveball or a gripping cliffhanger, but none of it is in the least bit intriguing. I fucking hate it.
Ugh.