Monday, May 24, 2010

Supernatural (TV Series)

It's 11:45 am. Presumably kids are still in school. But on TNT, they are showing a couple of episodes of Supernatural, from 2008. I just watched a guy knock another guy down and then bite great chunks out of his neck, lifting up his head to show half his face covered in blog. He's a "flesh-eating monster."

What an utter obscenity. Why would anyone in the world want to watch this crap? And why in the world is it being shown on TV, this early in the morning?

This is something that has always puzzled and saddened me -- people's obsession with fear. Every country has its own Horror film-makers - from Japan to Mexico to here in the good ol' USA. At least in the early days, in the US, most of it was left to the imagination, but since the 1970s, the more blood guts and gore, the better. But at least it was confined to the movies, where people under the age of 17 couldn't get in.

Now it's on TV, and anyone can watch.

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