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What are you currently watching on TV?

Watching For All Mankind. Anybody else watching this? I have a question. *SPOILERS AHEAD*

Just finished season 2. When the Russians boarded the ship why didn't they just give them back the cosmonaut? Multiple people died, the supply ship was shot down and there was almost a nuclear meltdown because...they had orders not to return him?
 
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Slowly working my way through MASH on Hulu. I always loved that show as a kid.



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Definitely going to watch the netflix show on Jeffrey Dahmer. So fascinating to me how someone's wires in their brain can get so crossed up. Dahmer's also interesting to me b/c unlike most serial killers he had a fairly normal (Ohio) childhood.

I saw a few episodes at a friend’s house. It was good. Thankfully not as gory as I thought it would have been. But still pretty creepy.

I was never super interested in his story, but this series really piqued my interest in it. Never knew he had some ties to Ohio until it. Always thought he was only a cheese and hard poop kind of guy.
 
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Definitely going to watch the netflix show on Jeffrey Dahmer. So fascinating to me how someone's wires in their brain can get so crossed up. Dahmer's also interesting to me b/c unlike most serial killers he had a fairly normal (Ohio) childhood.
Errr…if “mom took 25 kinds of medication wile you were in utero and then your parents going through a messy divorce while your batshit crazy mom tries to stab your father with a knife while your dad brings home roadkill to cut apart with you at the age of 7” is considered normal…
 
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I’ll say this, the people screaming about this particular series being “exploitative” are missing the entire fucking point…but maybe you had to live through the evolution of AIDS and how people reacted to it (and gay people) in the 80s and early 90s to really get it

I found that some of the dialogue brought attention to communities that are being exploited:
for instance, when the African American detective pointed out that Dahmer intentionally selected to live in a lower income and crime infested predominantly black neighborhood to operate out of because he knew he could’ve gotten away with more there. Or when Dahmer’s dad asked if he got any counseling while doing a year in jail for the incident with the underage Laotian boy, or the whole segment where dahmer’s father focuses on the pain of that kid’s dad. If anything those last two parts seem to be the most interpretive aspects of the show’s plot. Whereas many of the killings and the details around them are public knowledge, those social commentaries were very intentional and clearly is trying to give a voice to certain groups that are often ignored.

There are other comments that I could make about why I don’t think this show is being exploitative, but that might be topics better suited for the politics forum than this one.
 
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Definitely going to watch the netflix show on Jeffrey Dahmer. So fascinating to me how someone's wires in their brain can get so crossed up. Dahmer's also interesting to me b/c unlike most serial killers he had a fairly normal (Ohio) childhood.

A Fraternity brother of mine (a few years older, but I was close to him as we were both teaching at Ohio U and drank together on the reg) went to HS with him. He said that JD was always a bit off… but not so far off that anyone would have guessed what he would become. He did mention that while driving home after a party, shortly after graduating, he and a friend picked him up along the side of the road and drove him home.

Doing the math on that, it was right around the time of his first murder… like within a week +/-. He said that he never thought of it until the other guy in the car called him after the conviction and put the timeline together for him, but when he realized it creeped him the fuuuuuuck out.
 
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Errr…if “mom took 25 kinds of medication wile you were in utero and then your parents going through a messy divorce while your batshit crazy mom tries to stab your father with a knife while your dad brings home roadkill to cut apart with you at the age of 7” is considered normal…

Well when you put it that way 8D

But I mean, sad as it is, he's obviously far from the only kid who grew up with his parents fighting and one of them abusing drugs/alcohol. Now the road kill thing is a lil harder to explain 8D
 
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