Dramas that are difficult to watch

[mtbc]

The television drama Black Mirror (2011) occupies a strange and special place in how I regard shows. As an anthology series it is unusually good at presenting interesting ideas to which I am glad to be exposed. However, as evening entertainment, goodness, it's often bleakly, unpleasantly depressing, it's more fun to watch Waking the Dead (2000) and that's a show that makes Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (1999) seem light. I find Black Mirror heavy going and do not choose to watch it but I would like to be in the position of having watched more of it as I find myself coming back to thinking about episodes that I have seen.

Comments

[shadowkat]

See, this has been my difficulty of late - I can't watch a lot of really good programs right now due to their bleak and depressing, and often graphically violent content.

I keep meaning to watch Black Mirror, but can't get myself to do so. I did have a rather entertaining chat with an uncle that I recommended it too. He was upset with the Politician and the Pig episode. And did not understand how I could handle that. I advised him that I wouldn't know since I had not seen it. "So you rec'd something you haven't even seen?" "Well, yes, it came highly recommended from friends who saw it. And you appear to have liked it - outside of the Pig Episode." (I had to look up the pig episode to figure out why he was so upset. I was rather disappointed, it didn't seem all that bad to me - I'd seen worse on Alfred Hitchcock Presents.]

[wpadmirer]

I will admit that I avoid dramas that are disturbing. I have issues with anxiety, and have had horrible nightmares after watching such things. So I've given them up.

If the good guy doesn't win, I'm doomed.

[mellowtigger]

It was later in the 2nd season (3rd? I can't remember) when it improved by tying these stories together into a cohesive single universe. All very strange and memorable and think-worthy later, however disturbing they usually were.

[mtbc]

Yes, the pig episode wasn't much notable for me in any respect, apart perhaps from having a small nice twist.