The show is called the Tyrant, and it is easily the most violent show I have ever seen. The images are just burned in my brain, and they are awful. While I was watching it, I kept thinking, this is terrible, I need to turn this off...but I kept watching. Now I need a week in the woods to clear my head out.
Our society has told the inventors of entertainment that we want to watch awful, violent things. Our society is reflected in the shows we watch and movies we attend. The most popular shows on TV are murder shows......police fighting crime, solving crime. Even Castle, which is one of my favorite shows, revolves around a corpse every week.
Wow...
However, I think I am Gandhi...I scoop bees out of the pool so they won't die, but yet I am watching murder and mayhem regularly. I am an enigma wrapped up in a riddle. Actually, we all are.
We watch housewives yell at each other and people who are famous just for being famous. All of our news comes wrapped up in folks angry just to be angry. If you weren't mad before you started watching the news, you sure as heck will be after you watch it. They talk over each other, stretch the truth to make their points, build straw men and call it reporting.
And we watch....and we watch.....and we watch.....
We blow up twitter and Facebook when we are ticked. We leave anomymous comments and then run like little kids.
We do things that really take our peace away.
As a friend said today, we can do one thing to create a more peaceful earth. What one thing can I do?
Do I give up Mark Harmon, Richard Castle and Tom Selleck? No more George Stephanopolis or Chris Wallace?
Well, I gave up the Tyrant for sure.....
I need to get my peace back....
Simple but true...
This is why I rarely watch TV! My daughter got us all hooked on NCIS and we watch a taped show several times a week and a very good friend started me watching the True Blood series with her. I watch the latter behind my hands. Honestly! Why? I wonder that, too...
ReplyDeleteGlad you gave up Tyrant...I'll be sure to cross it off my list for the next person who wants me to spend time with them in front of the tube!
Annah, thank you for reading and I am glad you are crossing Tyrant off your list, it was awful
DeleteI won't let my husband watch the news anymore because he gets so mad! Great post!
ReplyDeleteI had to turn the news off too....I get so annoyed. Thank you for reading!!
DeleteThe only news I watch or read is about tech, entertainment, and nothing that will upset me, which is most of the news. When it comes to TV shows, I don't mind the type of violence on castle, because the show is so light and fun in tone. But there are many other shows I won't watch because the violence is too real. Yet that still doesn't bother me as much as looking at the front page of the newspaper each day.
ReplyDeleteSo glad you said that about Castle....I really didn't want to give it up. And I let twitter tell me the headlines...then I choose if I want to continue being depressed. thank you for reading!!
DeleteOh, the things we watch that are forever after stuck in our heads! I don't watch much TV for that exact reason. However, the horrible movies I've seen in the past are still there for me to dredge up at awkward times . . .
ReplyDeleteIt is amazing what our brains hang on to.....never where the keys are however. Thanks for reading!!
DeleteThanks for letting us know about this. I won't watch, for sure.
ReplyDeleteCarol it was hideous, I have spent a lot of time pouring figurative draino in my brain.
DeleteI just can't watch much TV any more. I agree, it just seems to contribute to the cycle of violence--or at least the acceptance of violence as the norm.
ReplyDeleteIsn't it interesting how many of us are done with violence? Women are going to save the world!!
DeleteI hardly watch tv except for the Disney Jr. and/or Nick Jr. channels for my son. But I agree if its not a fictional show then its a reality show, that are testing the limits of human acceptability, which is becoming more acceptable each season.
ReplyDeleteI cannot even imagine where TV is going to go for any grandchildren I may have. It is actually shocking.
DeleteMy husband and I co-exist in our down-sized empty nester space because I insisted that he wear headphones during most of the TV shows he watches. Game of Thrones? No thanks.
ReplyDeleteAnd game of thrones got scads of emmy nominations...I just don't get it. Good for you and the peace you must have not having to listen.
DeleteSo glad I happened on your comments. I sometimes feel like a weirdo for not enjoying the violent stuff. Now I see that there are people like me who are just not doing it.
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