Glory ,'The Killer In Me'
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Watching Little House and waiting for the dope merchant and whoremonger to show up.
Yes, but we can skip the clown-masked blacksmith/rapist, 'kay.
I was reading about that in a thread on another board and I just can't believe they went there (but I hadn't heard about the drugs, either).
There were episodes like that? Because I just meant that all "historical" type shows look like somebody's missing now, without the occasional traffic accident or "cocksucker". The truth is probably in the middle, right?
erika - [link] - the episode in question is called "Sylvia". I couldn't believe it myself until I read this (got the link from the Salon TT "Most disturbing television moments" thread; I think they also mentioned Kristin Bell's demise on DEADWOOD in there at some point).
Dude...no wonder I quit watching that.
I am still traumitized by that clown/blacksmith/rapist dude however many years later. Also, I was a sick little girl, but becuase of how sinister and secret Sylvia's pregnancy was and what a whack-a-loon her father was, I was SURE that it was her father's baby.
Although, now that I look at the dates that is less surprising, because that was the same year that my cousins came to stay with us because their father was abusing them. No wonder I was traumitized
My favorite line from the review of that ep from the link I put in: It is so wildly inappropriate it's almost hallucinatory.
Ha! Little House meets Deadwood: Erika funny.
"Sylvia" was quite a blow to the mind of children everywhere. Craziness, but I remember liking the episode. It was scary!
Seriously, Corwood, I was thinking "Where are the rabble and ignorant hooples? How do they have conditioner in 1874? Where's the Gem, or equivalent?" David Milch has fucked me up. Again, I should say...I used to love some Sipowicz, back in the day.
I'm working on an (unbearably pompous) article about institutionalism on Deadwood and The Wire. Although it seems obvious to me in retrospect, they are on opposite sides: Deadwood celebrates the creation and shelter of institutions as a force of civilization against the cruel hooples and robber barons, while The Wire points out over and over again how destructive they are to communities because institutions, while ostensibly neutral, are run by human beings, who are by nature frail and given to irrational means to achieve their ends.