Some TV shows make us feel virtuous just for surviving them.
a Netflix drama based on a true story, about the hunt for a serial rapist that was also an elegant rebuttal of the male prerogatives inherent both in law enforcement and TV shows about law enforcement. More accurately though, I watched two-thirds to three-fourths of it. I was familiar with thethat inspired the show and so knew it would feature a young woman who is raped by a home intruder and disbelieved by the police, beginning a cascade of injustices that derail her life for years.
The show that is left when you fast-forward though the Kaitlyn Dever stuff is an extremely satisfying cop procedural featuring two sane, reasonable, cool, comradely, and very excellent female police detectives, played by the fantastic Toni Collette and Merritt Wever, who team up to catch a serial rapist.
But the reasons why we watch things are complicated, and I think they are especially so with this sort of show. As much as watching is about bearing witness, about sitting with a horrible reality some people have had no choice but to face, about being outraged, about being moved, about signal-boosting a project based on a story all Americans shouldto grapple with, about doing the bare minimum—feeling a little emotional discomfort while watching a TV show—there’s something else too.
I’m going to give up the charade of the third-person plural and second-person singular and speak only as myself. Watching shows like this brings me pain, tears, and self-loathing. I find them so extremely moving. But underneath all those notes, there’s another one playing. There’s a little self-sentimentalizing burst of pride in my own depth of feeling, at my own capacity to respond so fully to the material .
Changing the subject now feels extremely abrupt, but I really want to stop talking about myself! And there’s more TV that needs to be chewed over as we head into the home stretch anyway. Let’s dig in on the things you loved, but maybe also the things you hated? One thing I was kind of happy to see the return of this year was well-funded catastrophically bad TV, which used to be a network specialty.
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