frelling_tralk

There's parts to the show that make me feel like it would be right up my alley, based on the bits I've watched & read about--the quality of the acting, the directing, the general darkness--but then I also seem to be very easily triggered by certain portrayals of violence & murder (I've never been able to watch Dexter, for instance. I get annoyed even at the mention of that show, mainly because of this concept that I've seen expressed by it & its fans that it's just to torture & then kill killers). Like, what you wrote above about the lead character learning "the beauty" of killing? And that being how his story ends? Makes me uncomfortable. I'm good with anti-heroes, especially if the point of having one is to explore their mindset, but I think I can only really deal with it when there's a balance on the show itself -- other characters putting it out there that murder is *not* beautiful, that torture (such as feeding one's own self to dogs) is not justified by the crimes of the victim. Does that make sense?

ETA: Plus, I have the feeling GA's character would end up being my fave, and I'm not sure I'm in the right head-space to see a fave character get such a disturbing ending (with it being potentially implied that she's going to watch her own leg be eaten, though oddly enough I think I'd be more okay with your first idea -- that she was just eating her own leg, but hadn't been captured). Too bad though, because it does sound like the show for sure has a lot of strengths.