Observation about "true crime" shows

Lounge
1

I watch a lot of true crime television.

I wish I didn’t,

But it plays on my TV almost all day.

Regardless of if I’m paying attention.

There’s a new show that I was watching this morning that had some interesting editing choices and a lot of odd, attention grabbing transitions.

For some reason this offended me.

During these shows they almost always have interviews with family members.

It made me think,

You know, if my sister or cousin were murdered and I decided to do a show about it,

I’m not going to go with a show that wants to sexy it up.

I wonder if these people knew this wasn’t Dateline and post production would try to make it creepy?

There are shows kind of notorious for this like “Snapped”,

But even that trash has a level of respect for the victims.

It’s not a lot, but it exists.

Does that bother anyone else?

I think if I had endured that trauma, I wouldn’t try to exploit it.

And if I felt maybe it would be therapeutic,

I would pick a show that won’t depict my loved one as a skank.

Just the thoughts of someone who is not getting enough sleep.

How do you feel about it?

2 Likes
2

I would feel the same as you I guess. But it kind of just the way it is. TV and Movies almost always do this. Whether its a movie based on a real event, or a true crime show, or reality tv. They almost always seek to make it more sensational, exciting, entrancing, etc.

It’s pretty much the standard MO for all of them. I guess you cant really blame them too much as they get more viewers that way, and thats all they are really after most of the time.

Edit: Very little on TV is really fully reality. Even the news will do this sensationalizing to get more viewers. A program that you are trying to turn to get the facts!

1 Like
3

I used to watch true crime shows all the time too. I don’t anymore. Never in fact.

What really pisses me off about these shows is that 99.99% of the time, its a woman who gets murdered. 95% of the time, its a very young woman who is murdered. And 97% of the time, it is, of course, a man who murders her. And do you ever notice that 99% of the time the ■■■■■■■ always gets away with it somehow?

And how, knowing all this, women continue to date and marry men is truly beyond me.

4

That’s right, because the majority of men are murderers.

Usually its misogyny that is too prevalent here and correction is needed.

It’s good to see that misandry still has a place here :roll_eyes:

2 Likes
6

I didn’t even cover the amount of wife beatings and rapes that go on, of which there are no female equivalent, and you can’t even compare when it comes to the murders.

7

Hetero sex is ok

Are you aware of feudal Japan?

8

Ladies murder a good bit too.

SPOILER ALERT

It’s always the wife.

Every episode since 2004.

1 Like
9

statistically, shes probably right that theres more men murderers. I havent actually looked at the statistics. But she basically suggested that all men are murderers and they have no place in relationships.

I guess I missed my calling.

10

Spouses rarely get away with murdering a spouse.

Or even an ex.

You are suspect 1 if your partner dies regardless of your involvement.

1 Like
11

Vampire methodology does the same thing I’m not impressed

12

Thats a tv show. And they don’t kill anywhere near the rate that men do.

13

I think all men should be thrown to the bottom of the sea. Including myself. It serves us right for being born male.

14

If you’re going to be difficult,

Show us the numbers, @SkinnyMe.

15

I said they get away with it on the crime shows, not necessarily in real life.

16
1 Like
17

I am watching Deadly Devotion episodes. I like it. I like it when it grabs my attention unless it’s too dramatic

18

People are made of men and women

19

The powers that be, ie., men, don’t publish the factual numbers on purpose because they don’t exactly want us stupid women knowing the truth.

20

Why do you hate men?

Dear gods.

21

Because the same stupid women getting duped by men in power can’t be researchers researching this very topic…

1 Like