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TV Tuesdays Free Talk
Have you watched any TV shows recently you want to discuss? Any shows you want to recommend or are hyped about? Feel free to discuss anything here.
Please just try to provide fair warning of spoilers if you can.
The Simpsons had a decent Halloween episode, even though it was only one story. Some neat call-backs.
edit: Slow Horses was fantastic this week. I love this show.
My mom and I finally caught up on Season 2 of RJ Decker, a crime drama show about a photographer-turned-PI after he got convicted for an assault charge. Fun show, has some creative crimes and mysteries, but turns out this season is only 7 episodes and the finale airs this week... So its odds of getting a season three are looking low, sadly.
That said, I wanted to specifically bring up the fifth episode because it featured probably the nicest depiction of schizophrenia I've seen.
The client was the one with it, but he'd already received treatment after a break in the past. He was just living his life as the caretaker for a retirement community left to him by his parents, and was in a good place mentally. The plot centered around someone trying to make him question his sanity and drive him to commit himself by making him feel like he was in a time loop, with certain events happening every day on a set schedule.
It was refreshing because usually schizophrenia only seems to feature in these kinds of shows when people are in mental health crises (or worse, are the culprit). Aside from the gaslighting though, this guy was stable and living a good life. It was repeatedly brought up how the routine and stability of working as a caretaker was good for him, and the residents all clearly liked and appreciated him. He had a sister who was frustrated and stressed by the thought he was backsliding, but she still cared and was happy at the end when the case was resolved.
Just nice to see a depiction of someone with it living a normal life for once. I honestly don't know much about schizophrenia, but it really does only ever seem to come up in the context of a crisis. I don't think he ever fell into an actual delusion during the episode, he was just stressed about the possibility (and also worried about a specific resident who seemed to die every loop).