Jun 7, 2018, 2:54 PM

@tinuviel Sure. But here's the horrible part: the things that happen in that series really happen. They happen disturbingly often, and people don't want to see them. And the don't want to see them often causes them get swept under the rug and not addressed properly when they happen in the real world.

It is not something to watch lightly. It is incredibly hard to watch. It's a very unflinching look at these subjects, with all of the conflicted emotions and complications that come with them.

People can't 'don't want to see it' out of happening in the real world. Yes, it's jarring as hell to see 'this is what that actually looks like, and it's fucking horrifying', and people generally don't want to see that.

The problem is, more people need to see something on TV in graphic detail these days to recognize that it's really something that happens. Is that also fucked up? Sure. But it's like refusing to show the bodies coming home from recent wars in the US for so long: it supports the sort of denial of reality that enables horrors to continue, because no one has to look at them.