Explain this to me.

[logansrogue]

How is a television show about a murderer that mortally wounds a pree-teen boy who is sitting in a pool, who then talks over the phone to a police-officer as he bleeds to death, and then tells the woman with fear that he doesn't want to die, then when the police officer gets to the blood-stained pool finds the boy dead, entertaining? Seriously. How is that entertaining?

I mean, entertainment is getting interested in something and getting some form of amusement out of it, right? HOW can anyone find that AMUSING?!
God, this society is so fucked. I really am going to enjoy the three month break from crime TV that I'll be getting when Mum and Dad go on holiday. I AM SICK OF THIS SHIT.

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[strangedave.livejournal.com]

I was about to reply and say 'catharsis' too.

I like a lot of dark drama myself. I'd rather confront and explore those parts of human nature through drama, than simply try to put them out of my mind. But peoples tastes differ.

(and I quite like sordid UK crime dramas in particular, too)