From gratuitous violence to unnecessary sexual assault, these TV moments were simply too much for the author to handle. Read about the scenes that left a lasting impact and forced her to turn away.
From fish and chip shop-induced trauma to programs packed with relentless death and gore, there are certain television moments that have me reaching for the remote. There are two specific scenes that have forced me to stop watching a show or movie, both involving infants. One is the final scene from the fourth series of, where he finds his wife’s murdered body in the bathtub and their young son sitting in a pool of his mother’s blood.
As a parent, this scene was just too horrifying for me to contemplate. When Helen Flynn was dunked into the deep fryer, I could not believe what I was seeing. Horrific and unnecessary. Never watched another episode. I give fish shops a wide berth but am always pleased to see Lisa Faulkner looking well and happy.I had enjoyed much of The Walking Dead, and felt betrayed and sucker-punched by the scene where they killed off Glenn. We held our breath for months to find out the identity of Negan’s victim, and were treated to the graphic image of a beloved character’s caved in head as it is beaten to a pulp with a baseball bat wrapped in barbed wire. I didn’t sleep for days and struggled with nausea and shock. How can producers of a TV show expose their loyal viewers to such an image? In the same way that I would never watch images of beheadings by a terrorist, to protect my mental health, I would never choose to see such a traumatic and deeply shocking image. I am aware of the difference between make believe and real life, but with this degree of realism the boundary is less evident. When the shock faded and I got back to thinking clearly, I was furious with the network that exposed me to trauma, suddenly blindsiding me and harming my mental wellbeing.The episode Crocodile – where a person is effectively tying up loose ends by killing anyone who was a witness to a murder she committed, meaning she kills a blind baby in a cot (who obviously couldn’t have seen anything). Any time a child is killed in a TV show I find it horribly off-putting, more so now I have kids of my own. I didn’t switch off but I did look away and I didn’t forget. It’s such a sensitive and horrible topic, that I think anyone who goes down that route on TV needs to consider how justified it is as part of the plot. Showing an actual body on TV should be avoided unless it’s absolutely essential to the plot – and even then, when would it be essential?With the pig. I know everyone says the show gets better after that, but I felt physically ill and couldn’t get past it.‘An intentional choice to bring sexual assault into their show’ … Emilia Clarke as Daenerys with Jason Momoa as Khal Drogo in Game of Thrones.I don’t like the use of sexual assault as a plot device, it is unnecessary and incredibly distressing. As an example, in Game of Thrones the scriptwriters chose to deviate from the original book to make Daenerys’ wedding night a scene where she was raped. In detail. Despite this not contributing in any meaningful way to the plot and being an intentional choice to bring sexual assault into their show.Like many people I was a big fan of Game of Thrones (sexism and poor latter seasons notwithstanding). I had read the books and loved watching them but the Mountain and the Viper episode definitely went too far. In the book, the titular fight ends with a character’s head being crushed by a forceful blow (gruesome by any standard). In the show, they decided to up the ante and closely portray him have his eyes gouged out, screeching in agony, before his head is basically ripped apart via the eye sockets. The sheer horror of that scene stayed with me for weeks, even months afterwards, and I felt as though I had seen it happen for real. What lingered even longer with me, for years in fact, was the question of why the showrunners decided to portray such extreme violence? There is enough gratuitous brutality in the world, we shouldn’t poison our entertainment with it.I couldn’t get past the bit in Shogun in the first episode where a mother is persuaded to hand over her baby to be administratively murdered because of something his father had said. It made me bawl my eyes out, possibly because I’m pregnant, but it seemed so needlessly cruel. But twice the content I watched in TV shows traumatised me. One scene was in Shogun which showed a man being boiled alive. You had to hear it, you had to see it and I feel ill every time I have to think of it. The fact it was on wholesome Disney just added insult to injury. Content like this is soul killing.Outlander went too far with the sheer number of sexual assault scenes, but the final straw for me was Claire (the main female character). They’d spent season after season putting every other character in that position, including the main male character, Jamie, but hers pushed me over the edge because it felt so gratuitous. It was so unnecessary to be so detailed for every single one of them. And we decided to watch it as well. I was only able to get through three episodes
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