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Torture porn and misery

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  • 01-12-2018 7:42pm
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    I have noticed here, on other forums and in real life the amount of divide about TV shows and films. 'Torture porn' and 'misery porn' are labels we hear from those who condemn violent drama. People tune in to watch dramas and films that they should know deals with violent topics. For example:

    Love/Hate and Breaking Bad clearly deal with drug dealers and organised crime. They are violent and show their worlds realistically. When a cat got shot in the former, some people nearly lost their standup.

    The Handmaid's Tale deals with a violent Gilead dictatorship which is akin to the Taliban in Christian form. They are a brutal, violent, misogynist regime and people should know this before watching it. It is amazing how many people thought this was a period drama akin to Downton Abbey or Jane Austen serialisations about servants in a 19th century house.

    Game of Thrones which I am going to watch soon but never have watched I know is a violent drama about a fictional medieval style kingdom. Once again, it is not Downton Abbey.

    Many people who tune into these series clearly are not the audience they are intended for yet as we see with the watered down Taken Down or Acceptable Risk, RTE have now decided to make crime and dystopian dramas for fans of Daniel and Majella's B&B roadtrip, Room to Improve and At Your Service. How would fans of the latter 3 programmes like to see people being tasered, beaten up, shot or tortured in them? They would not because they are not intended to be violent. Fans of crime and dystopian dramas should be allowed watch them without those who are non-fans of the genre resetting the rules. There has not been a worthy successor to Love/Hate because of RTE's listening to those who cry torture porn.


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